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 1965 / Served to 1976

T John Lesinski

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

T John Lesinski was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1976 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lesinski authored 348 published opinions for the court (1965–1976), plus 23 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Swan (122 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. 232 of these were attributed to Lesinski 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
1974	People v. Swan†	223 N.W.2d 346	122
1969	Renfroe v. Higgins Rack Coating & Manufacturing Co.†	169 N.W.2d 326	73
1969	Mullins v. Wayne County· Dissent†	168 N.W.2d 246	52
1972	People v. McFarlin†	199 N.W.2d 684	50
1971	People v. Membres· Dissent†	191 N.W.2d 66	50
1965	People v. Willis	136 N.W.2d 723	50
1975	Shavers v. Attorney General†	237 N.W.2d 325	49
1966	People v. Spann	142 N.W.2d 887	45
1970	People v. Jaworski· Dissent†	181 N.W.2d 811	43
1972	People v. Butler†	204 N.W.2d 325	41
1970	Vannoy v. City of Warren	182 N.W.2d 65	37
1968	Nicpon v. Nicpon	157 N.W.2d 464	37
1966	People v. Limon	145 N.W.2d 287	36
1972	People v. Gardner†	195 N.W.2d 62	34
1968	People v. Bowen· Dissent†	158 N.W.2d 794	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 378 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 was T John Lesinski on?: T John Lesinski was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).