Michael Anthony Cox is an American attorney and politician who served as Michigan's 52nd Attorney General from 2003 to 2011. He was the first Republican to hold that office since Frank Millard in 1955. Cox took office in 2003 and won re-election in 2006. Jennifer Granholm,who went on to become the Governor of Michigan,preceded him in office.
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2019 as the 49th governor of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party,she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.
Anita M. Alvarez is the former State's Attorney for Cook County,Illinois,United States. Alvarez was the first Hispanic woman elected to this position,after being the first Latina to win the Democratic nomination for state's attorney of Cook County.
Kym Loren Worthy is an American lawyer and politician serving as the prosecutor of Wayne County,Michigan since 2004. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She is most noted for prosecuting then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008.
Karin Johanna Immergut is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon since 2019. She concurrently serves as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2024.
Barbara Kloka Hackett was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Derek E. Miller is the former Treasurer of Macomb County,Michigan. Previously,he was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2014 and served as an Assistant Prosecutor in Macomb County,a role he returned to in 2017. Miller is currently awaiting trial on charges related to public corruption in the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office.
Barbara Lynn McQuade is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys,she stepped down in March 2017. She is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School,the author of "Attack from Within" and a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. She also cohosts the podcast "Sisters in Law."
Stuart John Dunnings III is an attorney who served for 19 years as the prosecutor for Ingham County,Michigan,and was the second African-American to be elected to such office in Michigan.
Dana Michelle Nessel is an American politician and lawyer,currently serving as the 54th Attorney General of Michigan since January 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Stephanie Dawkins Davis is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Eli Savit is an American lawyer,law professor,and politician. He is currently serving as the Prosecuting Attorney in Washtenaw County,Michigan. His areas of expertise include civil rights,education law,environmental protection,state and local government,and criminal-justice reform.
Hala Yalda Jarbou is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. She is the first Chaldean federal judge.
Sidney Katherine Powell is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor,and conspiracy theorist who attempted to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. In August 2023,she was indicted along with Donald Trump and eighteen others in the Georgia election case for their efforts to subvert the election outcome in Georgia and other key states lost by Trump. In October 2023,she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the performance of election duties. She was sentenced to six years of probation and agreed to testify against the other defendants.
Fani Taifa Willis is an American attorney. She is the district attorney of Fulton County,Georgia,which contains most of Atlanta,serving since 2021. She is the first woman to hold the office. Willis investigated the 2020 presidential election in Georgia,which resulted in indictments against Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators on charges of racketeering and other crimes. Willis also investigated and apprehended rapper Young Thug and members of his YSL record label on charges of racketeering and gang-related crimes in violation of Georgia's RICO Act.
On November 30,2021,a mass shooting occurred at Oxford High School in the Detroit exurb of Oxford Township,Michigan,United States. Ethan Robert Crumbley,age 15,armed with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun,killed four students and injured seven people,including a teacher. Authorities arrested and charged Crumbley as an adult for 24 crimes,including murder and terrorism. Crumbley pleaded guilty to all of the charges in October 2022 and was sentenced in December 2023 to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,plus an additional 24 years.
Events from the year 2022 in Michigan.
Events from the year 2021 in Michigan.
Robert M. Toms was an American jurist,actor,playwright,composer,and professor from Michigan. While on the bench in the Third Judicial Circuit,he is said to have tried about 40,000 cases. He taught Constitutional law at Wayne State University.
