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 1969 / Served to 1986

Vincent J. Brennan

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Vincent J. Brennan was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1986 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brennan authored 633 published opinions for the court (1969–1986), plus 91 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Humphreys (118 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. 564 of these were attributed to Brennan 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
1970	People v. Humphreys†	180 N.W.2d 328	118
1985	Brewster v. Martin Marietta Aluminum Sales, Inc†	378 N.W.2d 558	78
1975	Ambrose v. the Detroit Edison Co.· Concurrence†	237 N.W.2d 520	67
1969	People v. Childers†	174 N.W.2d 565	57
1979	Cook v. Bennett†	288 N.W.2d 609	53
1971	People v. Membres†	191 N.W.2d 66	50
1985	Sawabini v. Desenberg†	372 N.W.2d 559	49
1984	Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Hoag	356 N.W.2d 630	47
1971	Moore v. Federal Department Stores, Inc.†	190 N.W.2d 262	47
1976	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Kurylowicz†	242 N.W.2d 530	46
1974	People v. Harmon†	220 N.W.2d 212	46
1986	People v. Sundling· Dissent†	395 N.W.2d 308	45
1979	People v. Garth· Dissent†	287 N.W.2d 216	43
1981	People v. Rocha· Dissent†	312 N.W.2d 657	42
1981	Higgins v. Lawrence	309 N.W.2d 194	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 746 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 Vincent J. Brennan on?: Vincent J. Brennan was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).