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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1968

Theodore Souris

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Theodore Souris was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2002
Tenure: 1960–1968 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Souris authored 208 published opinions for the court (1960–1968), plus 42 dissents and 67 concurrences. Most cited: Durant v. Stahlin (184 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. 131 of these were attributed to Souris 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
1965	Durant v. Stahlin· Concurrence†	135 N.W.2d 392	184
1965	Felgner v. Anderson	133 N.W.2d 136	143
1968	Magreta v. Ambassador Steel Co.· Dissent†	158 N.W.2d 473	138
1968	People v. Dunn· Dissent†	158 N.W.2d 404	127
1965	Myers v. Genesee County Auditor· Concurrence†	133 N.W.2d 190	111
1962	People v. Harper	113 N.W.2d 808	101
1965	People v. Zaleski· Concurrence†	133 N.W.2d 175	100
1960	Carter v. General Motors Corp.	106 N.W.2d 105	94
1965	In Re Wood Estate	132 N.W.2d 35	87
1966	City of Gaylord v. Gaylord City Clerk· Dissent†	144 N.W.2d 460	86
1965	Hill v. Harbor Steel & Supply Corp.	132 N.W.2d 54	80
1965	Hunt v. Deming	134 N.W.2d 662	77
1966	People v. Schram· Dissent†	142 N.W.2d 662	73
1962	People v. Kaigler· Concurrence†	118 N.W.2d 406	73
1968	People v. Stearns· Dissent†	158 N.W.2d 409	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 317 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Theodore Souris on?: Theodore Souris was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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