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 1967 / Served to 1968

Stewart Albert Newblatt

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Stewart Albert Newblatt was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1967–1968 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Newblatt authored 0 published opinions for the court (1968), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Nitti (6 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. 1 of these was attributed to Newblatt 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
1968	People v. Nitti· Dissent†	157 N.W.2d 306	6

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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 was Stewart Albert Newblatt on?: Stewart Albert Newblatt was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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1 year 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).