“There is a primary for one open seat on the state Court of Appeals' Fourth District, which sprawls across much of the northern half of the Lower Peninsula and covers the Upper Peninsula. Our choice is Jim Howell of St. Charles, former chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee.”

The Detroit News

There is a primary for one open seat on the state Court of Appeals' Fourth District, which sprawls across much of the northern half of the Lower Peninsula and covers the Upper Peninsula. Our choice is Jim Howell of St. Charles, former chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee. He has long experience in private practice, served as a police officer and sheriff's deputy before becoming an attorney and now is an assistant in the state Attorney General's Office.

A Republican lawmaker, Howell took a generally conservative approach but proposed legislation to revise a Supreme Court decision that he thought was unfair to injury claimants, which shows an admirable streak of independence.

The Detroit News
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