How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1995 / Active

Stephen Markman

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Stephen Markman is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Markman authored 77 published opinions for the court (1995–2005), plus 7 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: UAW-GM Human Resource Center v. KSL Recreation Corp. (238 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 88 of these were attributed to Markman by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1998	UAW-GM Human Resource Center v. KSL Recreation Corp.†	579 N.W.2d 411	238
1997	People v. Gilmore†	222 Mich. App. 442	103
1996	People v. Davis†	549 N.W.2d 1	93
1999	H J Tucker & Associates, Inc. v. Allied Chucker & Engineering Co.· Concurrence†	234 Mich. App. 550	91
1995	Babula v. Robertson†	536 N.W.2d 834	83
1995	Lash v. Allstate Insurance†	532 N.W.2d 869	72
1995	People v. McMillan†	539 N.W.2d 553	69
1995	People v. Lee†	537 N.W.2d 233	69
1999	Alcona County v. Wolverine Environmental Production, Inc.†	590 N.W.2d 586	65
1999	People v. Murray†	593 N.W.2d 690	53
1999	People v. McIntire†	591 N.W.2d 231	49
1997	Reynolds v. Polen†	564 N.W.2d 467	48
1997	People v. Mayfield	562 N.W.2d 272	45
1997	Schroeder v. Terra Energy, Ltd.†	565 N.W.2d 887	45
1996	Barr v. Mt. Brighton Inc.†	546 N.W.2d 273	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Stephen Markman on?: Stephen Markman is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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31 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).