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Dennis Archer

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Archer/ASL.html

Read/listen to Dennis Archer's oral history, including his vision for the legal profession in regard to ethnic and gender diversity in our society.

Thomas Brennan

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Brennan1/ASM.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Thomas Brennan, the youngest Chief Justice in MSC history and founder of Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Second part of transcript available at http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Brennan2/ASN.html

Mary Coleman

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Coleman/ASO.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Mary Coleman, the first woman on the Michigan Supreme Court, as she discusses her early life and decision to run for a seat on the MSC.

George Edwards, Jr.

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Edwards/ASP.html

Read/listen to the oral history of George Edwards as he discusses important opinions from his career on the Michigan Supreme Court, including the case of Scholle v. Hare.

John Fitzgerald

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Fitzgerald/ASQ.html

Read/listen to the oral history of John W. Fitzgerald as he discusses his career on the Michigan Supreme Court.

Thomas Kavanagh

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Kavanagh/ASR.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Thomas Giles Kavanagh ("Thomas the Good") who discusses his career on the Michigan Supreme Court including the issue of apportionment.

Lawrence Lindemer

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Lindemer/AST.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Lawrence Lindemer as he discusses judicial selection and other matters related to the Michigan Supreme Court.

James Ryan

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Ryan/ASU.html

Read/listen to the oral history of James L. Ryan as he discusses his early life and the cases that shaped his career on the MSC, including Poletown.

Otis Smith

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Smith/ASV.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Otis Smith, the first African-American justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, as he discusses his early years in Memphis, Tennessee, and his time on the Court.

Theodore Souris

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Souris/ASW.html

Read/listen to the oral history of Theodore Souris including his involvement in the 1950 and 1952 election re-counts and the effect this had on his eventual appointment to the MSC.

John Swainson

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Swainson/ASX.html

Read/listen to the oral history of John W. Swainson, who served in all three branches of government.

John Voelker

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/court/public/all/Voelker/ASY.html

Read/listen to the oral history of John Voelker who most famously wrote the novel Anatomy of a Murder.