Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is an American former politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002. Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in September 2008 after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to four months in jail and was released on probation after serving 99 days.
William Francis Murphy was an American politician,lawyer,and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General,35th Governor of Michigan,and Mayor of Detroit. He also served as the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner to the Philippines.
The Michigan State University College of Law is the law school of Michigan State University,a public research university in East Lansing,Michigan. Established in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law,it was the first law school in the Detroit,Michigan area and the second in the state of Michigan. In October 2018,the college began a process to fully integrate into Michigan State University,changing from a private to a public law school. The integration with Michigan State University was finalized on August 17,2020.
Damon Jerome Keith was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Keith died in office at age 96.
Vince DeMentri is an American broadcast journalist.
The New York City Law Department,also known as the Office of the Corporation Counsel,is the department of the government of New York City responsible for most of the city's legal affairs. The department is headed by the Corporation Counsel,most recently Sylvia Hinds-Radix,the 81st official to hold this position,who resigned on June 1,2024.
The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown,Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and paramour Christine Beatty.
Miller Canfield,P.L.C.,doing business as Miller,Canfield,Paddock and Stone,is an American law firm based in Detroit,Michigan. In 2014,the firm was ranked 165th largest in the United States in terms of attorney headcount by the National Law Journal. It is an international firm with offices and affiliated locations in the United States,Canada,Mexico,China,Poland,Qatar,and Ukraine.
Robert P. Young Jr. is a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Young was first appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1999,elected in 2000 and 2002,and again won reelection in 2010 for a term ending in 2019. Justice Young announced he would be retiring from the court at the end of April 2017. Young is a self-described judicial traditionalist or textualist. In June 2017,Young announced his intentions to run against Debbie Stabenow in the 2018 senate race,but later dropped out saying he could not raise enough money for his campaign.
Diane Marie Hathaway is a former Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Hathaway,a Democrat,was elected on November 4,2008,to an 8-year term which commenced in January 2009. Hathaway retired from the court effective January 21,2013,after being charged with felony criminal mortgage fraud,to which Hathaway pleaded guilty on January 29,2013,and was sentenced to a year in prison.
Gary A. Brown is an American municipal politician and former police officer. He is currently serving as the Chief Operations Officer for the City of Detroit. Brown was elected as the Detroit City Council President Pro-Tem on November 4,2009 after receiving the second most votes. He was appointed to the non-elected position of Chief Compliance Officer in June 2013 under the state-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. Following the election of Mike Duggan as Mayor of the City of Detroit in November 2013,Brown was appointed as the Chief Operations Officer under the Mayor,a position he currently serves. The former Deputy Chief of the Detroit Police Department was born in Detroit,Michigan in 1953 and remains a Detroit resident with his wife.
Joseph W. Jacquot is the general counsel to the governor of the State of Florida. Previously Jacquot was the chief deputy attorney general of the State of Florida from 2007 to 2011. He successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark Miranda warning case Florida v. Powell and initiated the constitutional lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").
Michael Edward Duggan is an American lawyer,businessman,and politician serving as the 75th mayor of Detroit,Michigan since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party,Duggan previously served as the Wayne County Prosecutor from 2001 to 2004,and as the deputy county executive of Wayne County from 1987 to 2001.
The 2018 Michigan Attorney General election took place on November 6,2018,alongside elections to elect Michigan's governor,Class I United States Senator,Secretary of State,as well elections for Michigan's 14 seats in the United States House of Representatives,all 38 seats in the Michigan Senate and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives;to elect the Secretary of State of Michigan. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette was prohibited from seeking a third term due to term limits and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Michigan instead. The Michigan GOP was unsuccessful in looking to win its 5th straight attorney general election. Along with the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State,the nominees for attorney general were chosen by party delegates at their respective party conventions.
Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Tripp Clement is an American lawyer who serves as the chief justice of Michigan since 2022. She has served as an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court since 2017,after being appointed by Governor Rick Snyder.
Dr. Veronica Thierry Mallett,M.D.,MMM,is a women's health physician in the United States known for her work in urogynecology,specifically with respect to genital organ prolapse and urinary incontinence,and for her efforts in reducing health disparities.
