Your feedback ensures we stay focused on the facts that matter to you most—take our survey.

Janet Allen

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
BP-Initials-UPDATED.png
Ballotpedia does not currently cover this office or maintain this page. Please contact us with any updates.
Janet Allen

Silhouette Placeholder Image.png


Prior offices
Michigan 46th Circuit Court

Education

Bachelor's

University of Michigan

Law

Detroit College of Law

Janet M. Allen was a judge for the 46th Circuit Court in Michigan (counties of Crawford, Kalkaska, Otsego). She was appointed by former Governor Granholm on September 20, 2005. She replaced retired Judge Alton Davis.[1] She was re-elected on November 2, 2010, to a six-year term that ended on January 1, 2017.[2][3]

Education

Allen graduated from the University of Michigan in 1973 and went on to receive her J.D. degree from the Detroit College of Law in 1979.[4]

Career

Allen began her career in 1979 as a clerk for the late Michigan Supreme Court Judge Blair Moody, Jr. She then worked as an attorney and owner of Janet M. Allen, P.L.C. in Gaylord, MI from 1982 until she was appointed to the circuit court in 2005.[1]

2010 election

Main article: Michigan judicial elections, 2010

Allen was re-elected without opposition in the general election on November 2, 2010.[2]

External links

Footnotes