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2024

Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Late Great Soapy Williams: Memories & Reflections of a Former Michigan Supreme Court Law Clerk by Gregory J. DeMars
  • Society Archives Related to G. Mennen Williams
  • 60 Years of Legal Research & Recommendations: A History of the Supreme Court Commissioners’ Office by Daniel C. Brubaker
  • 2024 Annual Luncheon Photographs
  • Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Elects New Officers
  • Happy 100th Birthday, Judge Avern Cohn
  • Some More of the Newest Members of the Guild

Spring 

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Included in this issue are:

  • Backwards and In Heels: Women on the Michigan Supreme Court
  • From the Board of Education to the State Supreme Court, Or A Meeting of the Superficially Dissimilar by Justice Marilyn Kelly
  • My Journey to the Study of Law by Justice Maura Corrigan
  • Excellence Through Education: The Michigan Judicial Institute by Rachael Drenvosky and John Nizol
  • Meet Executive Director Lynn Seaks

Special Issue – Isaac P. Christiancy: Notes On His Celebrated Divorce by Carl W. Herstein

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2023

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • Opening of the 2023-2024 Supreme Court Term
  • Society Report to the Court
  • Advocates Guild Dinner – October 25, 2023
  • Thoughts on Our Inheritance From Great Advocates of the Past – Remarks by Mary Massaron
  • The Advocates Guild Membership
  • Newest Members of the Guild
  • Justice Kurtis Wilder Portrait Unveiling – Wednesday, November 29, 2023
  • A Year Can Define a Life: Robert P. Griffin by Carrie Sharlow
  • Society Membership
  • Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Thanks Donators!

Fall

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Included in this issue are:

  • Life After the Court: Bridget Mary McCormack
  • The Wives of the Big Four by Carrie Sharlow
  • Portrait Unveiling for Former Chief Justice Maura D. Corrigan
  • A New Project, A New Coleman Intern

Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • Because of Emerson, and Because of Jesse by Carrie Sharlow
  • African American Justices on the Michigan Supreme Court
  • Percy J. Langster Milestone
  • African Americans in Michigan’s Legal History
  • When a Tall Tree Falls…
  • 2023 Annual Luncheon Photographs
  • 2023-2024 Board of the Historical Society
  • Society Welcomes New Board Members

Spring

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Included in this issue are:

  • Chief Justice Stephen J. Markman Portrait Unveiling
  • Chief Justice Marilyn J. Kelly Portrait Unveiling
  • Former Chief Justice Maura D. Corrigan – Official Portrait Commission
  • Chief Justice Elizabeth T. Clement Takes the Helm and Justice Kyra Harris Bolden Joins the Court!
  • A Changing of the Guard at the Historical Society
  • The Advocates Guild Dinner, October 26, 2022
  • Calling All Law Clerks!
  • Researching the Origins of Law Clerks and the Michigan Supreme Court
  • A Supreme Court Brief: “A Loose Form of Verse”

2022

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • Home of Justice
  • Historic Homes of the Court
  • Joe Gavin Elected Treasurer
  • 2021 Society Law School Prize Winner: University of MIchigan Law School: Kami Groom
  • Annual Report to the Court
  • Former Justice Kurtis T. Wilder Begins Official Portrait Commission
  • Calling All Law Clerks!
  • Tribute to Judge Avern Cohn

Spring/Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • “Booted and Spurred”: Railroads, the Range, and the Public Good, the case of Williams v the Michigan Central
  • Langford Morris Receives Society’s Top Honor: Dorothy Comstock Riley & Wallace D. Riley Legal History Award Winner
  • 2022 Annual Membership Luncheon Photographs
  • Portraits of Justice: Justice Aaron Vance McAlvay: Delivering Legal Services to Rural Michigan and Providing Geographic Diversity to the Bench
  • James Kirwan Named Law Student Prize Winner for University of Michigan Law School

2021

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Man Behind the Portrait: Justice John McDonald and Artist Kreigh Collins by Brian Collins
  • Changing of the Guard: From Justice Markman to Justice Welch and Female Majority
  • 2020 MSU Law Prize Winner Thomas Philbrick
  • 2021 Membership Renewal
  • Remembering Justice Charles Levin, A Judicial Maverick by Michael Cavanagh
  • In Memory of Justice Lawrence Lindemer
  • Advocates Guild: Great Advocates Spotlight by Patrick Batterson
  • Where the Justices Lived: The Historic Boston-Edison Neighborhood of Detroit

2020

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • Historic Advocate Spotlight: Dynamic Figures in Michigan’s Legal History featuring William Carpenter and William Potter by Advocates Guild Intern Patrick Batterson
  • 2020 Vision: President’s Message from Carl Herstein
  • Supreme Court Learning Center
  • University of Michigan Law School Prize Winner Hillary John
  • Anatomy of a Michigan Supreme Court Case: A Night with Advocates and Justices
  • Scenes from the 2019 Advocates Guild Dinner

Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • Portrait of Justice: Ernest Albert Snow by Judge Fred L. Borchard
  • Four Elected to Board of Directors
  • Judge Cohn Awarded Society’s Legal History Award
  • Historic Advocate Spotlight: Dynamic Figures in Michigan’s Legal History featuring Alex J. Groesbeck, William A. Lucking, and Thomas G. Long
    by Advocates Guild Intern Patrick Batterson
  • 2020 Coleman Intern: Ireoluwa Ayoola
  • University of Michigan Law School Prize Winner Luke Barbour

2019

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • “No Rest for the Weary: William Asa Fletcher, Michigan’s First Chief Justice” by Joseph Gavin
  • Who’s Buried in Fletcher’s Tomb?
  • Timeline of William Fletcher’s Life and Death
  • Michigan Legal Milestone No. 5, Michigan’s First Chief Justice
  • Missing Portrait #findfletch
  • Bridget McCormack Elected Chief Justice
  • Thomas Russell Sherwood, 27th Michigan Supreme Court Justice
  • Society Presents Law Prize to University of Michigan Law Winners

Spring-Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • Chief Justice McCormack’s Opening Remarks at the Society’s Annual Luncheon
  • State Bar of Michigan President Grieco’s Remarks at the Society’s Annual Luncheon
  • Photos from the Annual Luncheon
  • Cavanagh, Gavin Elected to Society’s Board
  • Hillsdale Professor Paul Moreno Selected as Society’s First Historical Adviser
  • Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Board of Directors 2019-2020
  • Law Clerk Directory Notice
  • Breakfast with the Michigan Supreme Court Registration Form
  • Membership Roster and Corporate Sponsor Recognition

Fall

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Included in this issue are:

  • Justices from the North: Michigan Supreme Court Justices with Ties to Northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula (and photos from the Breakfast in Traverse City)
  • Society Annual Report to the Court
  • A Man Who Loved His Job: Michigan’s First District Court Judge Ross Wilkins

Year End

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Included in this issue are:

  • “Justice Edward Mundy: A Feisty Public Servant” by Lori A. Buiteweg
  • Invisible Scribes: 2019 Michigan Supreme Court Law Clerk Directory
  • Invisible Scribes Questionnaire
  • Society Membership Registration Form

2018

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Civil War and Law by Trenton Koch, 2017 Coleman intern
  • Frank Murphy: One-of-a-Kind and One of Our Own by Julie Dale, Third Circuit Historical Society
  • Judge Cohn to be Honored at Michigan History Conference
  • Missing Portrait: William Asa Fletcher
  • Spotlight on Solicitors: Part Four by Andrea Muroto Bilabaye

Spring

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Included in this issue are:

  • Otis Smith: A Man from Flint by SBM President Donald Rockwell
  • Some Remarks on Michigan’s Reception of the Common Law by Vincent Wellman
  • Photos from the Annual Luncheon on Thursday, April 19, 2018
  • Greetings from Society President Carl W. Herstein
  • Board of Directors 2018-2019
  • Welcome to new Board members Lori A. Buiteweg and Shenique A. Moss
  • Bird’s Top Hat: Society Donates Artifact to Michigan Supreme Court
  • In Memoriam: Wallace D. Riley, John W. Reed, Hon. Michael G. Harrison
  • Breakfast of Champions … for Justice

Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • In Memory of Wallace D. Riley and John W. Reed
  • Raconteur and the Rule of Law: Chief Justice Markman’s Reflections on Wallace Riley
  • John Reed: The Fred Astaire of the Law School World by Justice Bridget McCormack
  • In Memoriam: Wallace D. Riley Esq. by Charles R. Rutherford, Past President, MSCHS
  • Tribute to John Reed by John Fedynsky, MSCHS Board of Directors
  • Tribute to Wallace D. Riley by John P. Jacobs, Treasurer, MSCHS
  • Citation for a Good Man: Justice Talbot Smith and his law clerk Wallace Riley
  • Justice Riley’s Husband: Photos of Wallace Riley and Dorothy Comstock Riley
  • Investiture of Justice Elizabeth T. Clement
  • Law Student Prize Presented to Hannah Stocker at MSU College of Law
  • US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Visits Mid-Michigan

Fall

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Included in this issue are:

  • Justice Young’s Portrait Unveiled
  • Invisible Scribes: 2018 MSC Law Clerk Directory
  • Society Visits West Side of State: Breakfast with the Michigan Supreme Court a Success
  • Tribute to Justice Thomas E. Brennan: MSC’s Youngest Chief Justice
  • Advocates Guild Dinner
  • Supreme Court Learning Center: Rule of Law, People of the Three Fires, and A Day in Court Exhibits Open
  • The 2018 Bench; New Crier, Bailiff on MSC Bench
  • Megan Cavanagh Makes History: First Father-Daughter Duo on MSC
  • Justice Elizabeth Weaver’s Portrait Dedicated Posthumously
  • Michigan’s First Female Majority Court – 1997
  • Justice Potter’s House

2017

Winter

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Included in this issue are:

  • A Letter from Society President Charles Rutherford
  • The Year Ahead: Executive Director’s Report
  • MSU Law Prize Winner
  • UM Law Prize Winner
  • Spring 2017 Coleman Intern
  • Stephen J. Markman Elected Chief Justice
  • Marston in Michigan History Magazine
  • Spotlight on Solicitors: Part One (Creation and Evolution of the position, Edmund E. Shepherd, and Samuel J. Torina) by Andrea Randall
  • Membership Roster and 2016 Corporate Members

Spring

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Included in this issue are:

  • Annual Membership Luncheon Will Feature Vignettes Related to Detroit
  • About the Speakers
  • Justice Robert P. Young, Jr. Announces Retirement
  • Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley Featured by Shinola for Her-Story Month
  • Toxic Tort Case is Subject of Summer Moot Court Program

Summer

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Included in this issue are:

  • Highlights from the 2017 Annual Luncheon
  • Ferguson v Gies: A Supreme Decision by Lawrence P. Nolan
  • List of 2017 Table Sponsors
  • Photos from the 2017 Luncheon
  • Chief Justice Markman’s Remarks
  • Society Presents Dorothy Comstock Riley Legal History Award to President Charles Rutherford
  • Society Board of Directors Photo
  • Artifact Acquisition and Testimonial to Judge Douglass
  • Kurtis Wilder Appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
  • Wheaton, DeMars Elected to Society’s Board
  • Spotlight on Solicitors: Part Two (Joseph B. Bilitzke, Eugene Krasicky, and Robert A. Derengoski) by Andrea Muroto Bilabaye

Fall

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society President Charles Rutherford’s Report to the Court
  • Kurtis T. Wilder’s Investiture Ceremony
  • Larsen to Clement: Changes on the Court
  • Gubernatorial Appointments to the Michigan Supreme Court: A Historical Perspective
  • The Rule of Law, the Michigan Supreme Court, and the Advocates Guild by Mary Massaron
  • Scenes from the 2017 Advocates Guild Dinner
  • Matthew T. Nelson Elected to the Advocates Guild Executive Committee
  • Spotlight on Solicitors: Part Three (Louis J. Caruso, Gay Secor Hardy, and Thomas L. Casey) by Andrea Muroto Bilabaye
  • Portrait of Justice: Associate Justice Patricia J. Boyle by Mary Massaron
  • Invisible Scribes: List of 2017-2018 Michigan Supreme Court Law Clerks
  • Court Mourns Long-Time Crier
  • SBM NEXT Conference and list of new members
  • Society Goes to Texas by Executive Director Carrie Sampson

2016

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year in Review: President Charles Rutherford
  • The Year Ahead: Executive Director’s Report
  • Augustus Brevoort Woodward: A Life Worthy of Study
  • Membership Roster and 2015 Corporate Members

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Included in this issue are:

  • Shaping Justice: How Michigan Supreme Court Justices and Bar Leaders Have Faced the Future, and What Might Come Next by State Bar of Michigan President Lori Buiteweg from the Society’s Annual Luncheon
  • Photos from 2016 Annual Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • Portraits of Justice: James Valentine Campbell
  • Justice Joan Larsen’s Remarks on Justice Scalia
  • Exploring Careers in the Law 2016
  • From the Hall of Justice to the Pulpit: Former MSC Chief Commissioner Becomes Priest
  • Advocates Guild Dinner Announced for October 5, 2016

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Included in this issue are:

  • Report to the Court: State of the Society 2016 by President Charles Rutherford
  • Portraits of Justice: Benjamin Franklin Graves by Judge Alfred Butzbaugh
  • Chief Justice Robert P. Young, Jr.’s Remarks from the 2016 Advocates Guild Dinner
  • Karl Llewellyn and the Important Role of Appellate Advocates by Mary Massaron
  • Two More Elected to Advocates Guild Executive Committee
  • Photos from the Advocates Guild Dinner
  • A Portrait Dedication in Pictures: Michael F. Cavanagh
  • Law Clerk Directory

2015

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year Ahead: President’s Report by Wallace D. Riley
  • The Year in Review: Executive Director’s Report
  • Court of Appeals 50th Anniversary
  • 2015 Coleman Intern
  • Bronco! Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School
  • Society Presents Law Prize at MSU College of Law
  • Membership Roster and 2014 Corporate Members

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Included in this issue are:

  • Text of David G. Chardavoyne’s speech at the Annual Luncheon
  • Photos of attendees at Annual Luncheon
  • Exit Smiling: Thoughts of Wallace D. Riley, President 1988-2015
  • President’s Message: Magna Carta and Its American Legacy by Charles Rutherford
  • Society Elects New Officers
  • Gillooly Elected New Member of Board of Directors
  • At the Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center: Law Day, Michigan Court of Appeals 50th Anniversary, and Exploring Careers in the Law

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Included in this issue are:

  •  A Brief History of the Court Reporter’s Office by Kevin Cunningham, 2015 Coleman intern
  • Chart of Court Reporters
  • Law Student Prize at Michigan Law
  • Loomis Guns Return to State Capitol
  • Judge Cohn Honored
  • Summer Reading List and Order Form
  • Advocates Guild First Chair Report, Save-the-Date, and Pewabic Pottery Commemorative Tile

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Included in this issue are:

  • Thomas McIntyre Cooley by Carl W. Herstein, Society Vice President
  • Donation of Cooley Letter by Judge Don Binkowski, Retired
  • First Women on the Court
  • Appellate Advocates and the Sound of Defeat by Mary Massaron
  • Photos from the 2015 Advocates Guild Dinner

2014

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Included in this issue are:

  • 25 Years: A Review by Society President Wallace D. Riley
  • Tribute to Patricia Boyle
  • Executive Director’s Report
  • Membership Roster
  • Save the Date: Annual Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • History of the Civil War and Michigan’s Role in the Absentee Voting Controversy
  • Civil War Justices: Portraits of Copeland, Morse, Long, Cahill, Grant, Montgomery, and Moore
  • Inquiry Into Isaac Marston from Northern Ireland

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Included in this issue are:

  • Justice John Dethmers: Eugene Wanger Donates Photos of 69th Justice
  • PHOTOS from the Annual Luncheon on April 10, 2014
  • Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Board of Directors for 2014-15
  • Society Board of Directors Welcomes Julie Fershtman
  • Leland Carr: A Snapshot written by his granddaughter Laurie Dawson
  • Exploring Careers in the Law: July 21-25
  • Society Law Student Prizes: The University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law
  • G. Mennen Williams Exhibit in the Learning Center
  • 2014 Member Contribution Form

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Included in this issue are:

  • Michigan’s High Court Says No to Absentee Voting for Absent Civil War Soldiers
  • An Evening at the Supreme Court: The Advocates Guild Dinner
  • Pewabic Pottery Commemorative Tile Collection
  • The Night in Pictures: Photos from the Advocates Guild Dinner
  • State of the Society 2014: Report to the Michigan Supreme Court by Wallace D. Riley
  • Traquair: Scotland’s Oldest Inhabited House
  • Governor G. Mennen Williams and the Great Ferris Fire: 39th Michigan Legal Milestone
  • Michigan Supreme Court Connections to Ferris Institute
  • #TBT 1941 Michigan Supreme Court photo
  • Big Four Photo Order Form

2013

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year in Review: A Message from Society President Wallace D. Riley
  • Executive Director’s Report
  • Investiture of Justice Bridget Mary McCormack
  • Interview with Michigan Supreme Court Justices: Oral History Project Online at Vincent Voice Library at MSU
  • The Sparrows and the Michigan Supreme Court
  • Membership Roster // Corporate Member List // Honorarium

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Included in this issue are:

  • Celebrating 25 Years: 1988-2013
  • Justice David Viviano Appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
  • Society Presents Law Student Prize at MSU College of Law

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Included in this issue are:

  • Dorothy Comstock Riley Legal History Award: Honors Both Founder, President for 25th Anniversary
  • Photos from 25th Anniversary Luncheon at the Detroit Athletic Club

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Included in this issue are:

  • Found! The Portrait of John W. McGrath
  • Alpheus Felch: Justice, Governor, U.S. Senator and What’s In a Name?
  • Miles From Home: Letter of Jane Miles, Wife of 8th Justice George Miles
  • Message from Advocates Guild First Chair Mary Massaron Ross
  • Photos from the 2013 Advocates Guild Dinner

2012

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year in Review 2011: A Message from Society President Wallace D. Riley
  • Where We Are Going: Executive Director’s Report
  • Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Board of Directors
  • Law Student Prize: University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
  • The Positivist and Natural Law Analysis of Korematsu v. United States
  • Found Photos: Voelker, T.G. Kavanagh, Souris, Fitzgerald, and Lane.
  • Advocates Guild Newsletter: Dinner Recap
  • New Law Day Contest from State Bar of Michigan Links to Michigan Legal Milestones
  • Corporate Member List
  • Honorarium Donations
  • Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson
  • Women Who Dared To Lead: New Exhibit Opens at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center
  • The Big Four: Imported from Michigan
  • Learning Center Offers “Moot Court” Programs for Students, Teachers

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Included in this issue are:

  • Portrait Unveiled: Conrad Mallett, Jr. Portrait Dedicated in Special Session
  • Photos from the 2012 Annual Luncheon
  • 2012 Coleman Intern Jamie Crist
  • Society Presents Law Student Prize at MSU College of Law
  • Society Presents Law Student Prize at Wayne State University College of Law
  • Phi Beta Kappa History
  • Father & Son Supreme Court Justices and Touch-up of TG Kavanagh Portrait
  • Website Survey

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Included in this issue are:

  • Three Elected to Michigan Supreme Court
  • Justice Marilyn Kelly Prepares for Life Off the Court
  • Book Review–Court Watchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme Court History
  • A “Switch” in Time Saves Nine
  • Law Student Prize Presented at University of Michigan Law School
  • Thomas M. Cooley Student Receives Society Law Student Prize
  • From Coleman Intern to Lawyer: Stephanie Schnelz
  • Domestic Violence Exhibit Debuts in Learning Center
  • Advocates Guild Dinner 2012

2011

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year in Review: A Message from Society President Wallace D. Riley
  • Goals for the Year Ahead: Executive Director’s Report
  • The Care and Feeding of Portraits: Three Georges
  • Around the HOJ
  • Member Spotlight: James L. Ryan
  • Annual Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Evolution of Michigan’s Hybrid Electoral System
  • 2011 Board of Directors
  • Highlights of 2011 Annual Membership Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Legacy of Isaac Christiancy Lives On
  • About the Portraits
  • Exploring Careers in the Law
  • Crime Victims Rights Exhibit
  • Law Student Prize: University of Michigan Law School
  • Life After the Michigan Supreme Court: Maura Corrigan and Michigan’s Children

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Portrait Collection Grows: Dedication for Justice Taylor’s Portrait Held in September
  • Law Student Prize: Thomas M. Cooley Law School
  • Law Student Prize: Michigan State University College of Law
  • John Voelker’s Laughing Whitefish Re-Published by MSU Press
  • Cavanagh Portrait Fund Established
  • Portrait Dedication for Conrad Mallett, Jr., Postponed

 

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  • The Year in Review: A Message from the Society President
  • Save the Date! Annual Membership Luncheon
  • Goals for the Year Ahead: Executive Director’s Report
  • The Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center
  • Society Offers Lesson Plans to Middle School and High School Teachers
  • 2009 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • Save the Date for Michigan’s County Courthouses at the Annual Luncheon
  • Law Day 2010: Law in the 21st Century
  • Portraits of Two Justices: John Bird and Ernest Snow
  • Member Spotlight: Judge Megan Maher Brennan

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Included in this issue are:

  • Annual Membership Luncheon 2010: All Roads Lead to Lansing
  • Michigan’s County Courthouses – Book by John Fedynsky
  • Society Elects Borchard, Courtade, and Ellsworth to Board of Directors
  • 2010 Board of Directors
  • Luncheon Photos

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Included in this issue are:

  • Terms of Service: Longest to Shortest-Serving Justices and the Allen B. Morse Connection
  • Andrew Paulsen Named 2010 Coleman Intern
  • Biography of John Swainson Published
  • End of Year Membership Renewal
  • Advocates Guild Special Issue

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  • A Message from the Society President: Reflections on 2008
  • Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center Update
  • A Message from the Executive Director: Where We’re Headed in 2009
  • The Investiture of Justice Diane Marie Hathaway
  • Re-Dedication of “Big Four” Mural at Cooley Law School
  • Membership Roster

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  • Road Trip! A Look at the Places and Personalities Made Famous by Sherwood v. Walker
  • 2009 Coleman Intern Stephanie Schnelz
  • Society Welcomes New Vice President, Directors to Board
  • Images from the 18th Annual Membership Luncheon

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  • Society Restores Desk of Justice Leland W. Carr
  • Wanted: Historic Court Artifacts
  • Bird, Snow Portraits Sent to Chicago
  • Other Portrait Restoration Projects
  • Test Your Knowledge: Court History Quiz
  • Society Law Student Prizes Awarded at U.D. Mercy and MSU Colleges of Law
  • Taking the Court to the People
  • Advocates Guild Hosts 3rd Annual Dinner

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Included in this issue are:

  • A Message from the Society President
  • Can’t Wait for 2008: Executive Director’s Message
  • Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center Update
  • Membership Roster
  • A Message from the Society President: A Look Back at 2007
  • Can’t Wait for 2008: A Message from the Executive Director
  • Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center Update
  • 2007 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • In Recent News…Society Hires 2008 Coleman Intern
  • In Recent News…Verdict of History Lesson Plans a Hit
  • MSCHS 2007 Financial Statement

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Hosts 17th Annual Membership Luncheon
  • Society Welcomes New Board Members
  • Chief Justice Addresses Luncheon
  • Images from the Annual Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Receives $45,000 Grant from State Bar Foundation
  • A Changing of the Guard at the Historical Society
  • Supreme Court Advocates Guild Hosts Second Annual Dinner

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Year in Review: A Message from the Society President
  • The Road Ahead: A Message from the Executive Director
  • 2006 Year-End Financial Statements
  • 2006 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • The Defeat of Thomas M. Cooley in the 1885 Election
  • 16th Annual Luncheon to Feature Legal Vignette by Professor Paul D. Carrington
  • Did You Know….The Commissioners’ Office

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Included in this issue are:

  • Chief Justice Cooley
  • Society Welcomes New Officer
  • Society Hosts 16th Annual Membership Luncheon
  • Images from the 16th Annual Membership Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • The 1986 Michigan Supreme Court Election
  • Historical Society Receives $9,400 Grant from the Michigan Humanities Council
  • Supreme Court Advocates Guild Hosts Inaugural Dinner

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Included in this issue are:

  • A Look Back at 2005: A Message from the Society President
  • What’s Ahead in 2006 – A Message From the Executive Director
  • 2005 Year-End Financial Statements
  • 2005 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • Luncheon Program Will Feature Vignette by Co-Editor of The History of Michigan Law
  • About The History of Michigan Law
  • Learning Center Working on Several New Projects

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Included in this issue are:

  • Michigan’s Surprising and Unexpected History of Equality
  • Society Welcomes New Officer and Board Members
  • Society Hosts 15th Annual Membership Luncheon
  • Resolution Honoring Mrs. Rosa Parks
  • Images from the 15th Annual Membership Luncheon

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Included in this issue are:

  • Coleman Intern Completes Research Project
  • Did You Know….War Heroes on the Court
  • The 1943 Defeat of Bert D. Chandler
  • Did You Know….The Seal of the Michigan Supreme Court

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Included in this issue are:

  • Historical Society Hosts Special Session Acknowledging Loan of the Big Four Portrait

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Included in this issue are:

  • John Voelker: Justice, Author, Fisherman, Friend
  • Society Welcomes Michael G. Harrison to the Board
  • Society Hosts 14th Annual Membership Luncheon
  • Portrait of Justice Theodore Souris Dedicated

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Included in this issue are:

  • A Look Back at 2003 – A Message From the Society President
  • The Road Ahead – A Message From the Executive Director
  • 2003 Year-End Financial Statements
  • 2003 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • Trial of Last Man Executed Under Michigan Law to be Topic of Luncheon Vignette

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Included in this issue are:

  • Test Your Knowledge of the Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court
  • Your Copy of the New Index to Special Sessions Will Soon Be in the Mail!
  • Society Sponsors Holiday Card Fundraiser for the Learning Center

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Included in this issue are:

  • Michigan Supreme Court Dedicates Hall of Justice
  • President’s Message
  • Society Hires 2003 Coleman Intern
  • Big Four Writing and Research Project Underway
  • 2002 Year-End Financial Statements
  • 2002 Membership Roster

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Dedicates Portrait of Justice James H. Brickley
  • Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley To Be Honored With the Legal History Award

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Honors Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley With LEGAL HISTORY AWARD
  • The Society Celebrates Its 15th Year
  • Michigan Political History Society Picks “Greats” of Past Half-Century
  • 2003 Annual Luncheon Photos

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Included in this issue are:

  • 2003 Coleman Intern Completes Women and the Law Project
  • Society Members Earn State Bar Honors
  • Michigan Supreme Court Justices as Authors
  • In the Spotlight

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Included in this issue are:

  • Controversies and Cases:The Indigenous Peoples of Michigan
  • President’s Message: Tragedies and Triumphs
  • Portrait Collection
  • Membership Luncheon
  • Coleman Internship
  • Education Project
  • Oral Histories
  • Hall of Justice

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Included in this issue are:

  • Governor Engler To Be Honored With the First-Ever Legal History Award
  • Society Projects Progressing Nicely
  • Hall of Justice Construction Continues

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Included in this issue are:

  • Governor Engler’s Judicial Philosophy
  • Chief Justice Corrigan Addresses the Crowd
  • Society Welcomes Two New Boardmembers, Honors Others
  • Society Unveils New Logo

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Included in this issue are:

  • Society Receives Historic Artifact
  • Demystifying the Judiciary: The New Learning Center
  • New micourthistory.org Up and Running
  • Justice Boyle Oral History Nearing Completion
  • Oral Histories to be On-line by October
  • Society Prepares for Move to Hall of Justice

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Included in this issue are:

  • People v Dean – An Early Suffrage Case in Michigan Supreme Court History
  • Cooley Law Grad Makes History
  • Coleman Intern Selected and On Her Way

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Included in this issue are:

  • Dorothy Comstock Riley Receives Distinguished Public Service Award
  • Legal Milestone to be Dedicated in Honor of Mary Stallings Coleman
  • Society Bids Farewell to Executive Director, Welcomes New Director
  • Chief Justice Weaver Delivers State of the Judiciary Address
  • MSC Opening Session Scheduled

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Included in this issue are:

  • Michigan Supreme Court History: The Civil Rights Struggle
  • Beam Signing Held for Hall of Justice in Lansing
  • Society Receives Grant for Its 2001 Education Pilot Project
  • Biography of Otis M. Smith Published
  • 20th Century Portrait Collection Completed

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Included in this issue are:

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  • Chief Justice Elizabeth Weaver’s Extraordinary Journey
  • President’s Message
  • Justices Maura Corrigan and Robert Young, Jr. Sworn In