Marilyn Kelly
2015 - Present
2030
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Marilyn Kelly (Democratic Party) is an at-large member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors. She assumed office on January 1, 2015. Her current term ends on December 31, 2030.
Kelly (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the Wayne State University Board of Governors. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Kelly was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. She was elected to the court for an eight-year term on November 5, 1996, after having been nominated to run for a seat on the court by the state's Democratic Party. She retired on January 1, 2013, due to the mandatory retirement age in Michigan.[1][2]
Education
Kelly received her B. A. from Eastern Michigan University in 1960. In 1961, she obtained her master's degree in French Language and Literature at Middlebury College in Vermont, completing her graduate studies at La Sorbonne, the University of Paris. Justice Kelly received her J.D. with honors from Wayne State University Law School in 1971.[3]
Career
From 1962 to 1967 Justice Kelly taught French at Grosse Pointe Public Schools, Albion College and Eastern Michigan University. She was elected statewide in 1964 to the Michigan State Board of Education and later became its President. From 1969 to 1988, she held several clerkships and practiced law as an associate attorney at Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg in Detroit, as a partner at Dudley, Patterson, Maxwell, Smith & Kelly in Bloomfield Hills and as principal and owner of Marilyn Kelly & Associates in Bloomfield Hills. In 1988 Justice Kelly was elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals for a six-year term. She was re-elected in 1994 and served until she joined the Michigan Supreme Court. Kelly was a supreme court justice from 1998 to 2013.[3]
Awards and associations
Awards
- 2009 Guardian of Justice Award, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
- 2005 Outstanding alumni, Wayne State University
- 2003 Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, State of Israel Bonds Attorney Division
- 2003 Michael Franck Award, State Bar of Michigan[3]
Associations
- Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation, 2003
- American Arbitration Association
- Oakland County Bar Association
- Chair, Family Law Committee, Oakland County Bar Association
- Committee Co-Chair, President's Task Force on Improved Dispute Resolution, Oakland County Bar Association
- Panel Attorney, State Attorney Discipline Board
- Family Law Council, State Bar of Michigan
- State Bar Representative Assembly
- President, Women's Bar Association
- President, Women Lawyers' Association of Michigan[4]
Elections
2022
See also: Michigan State Board of Regents election, 2022
General election
General election for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Wayne State University Board of Governors on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marilyn Kelly (D) | 24.9 | 1,969,081 |
| ✔ |  | Danielle Atkinson (D) | 24.9 | 1,963,010 |
| Christa Murphy (R) | 24.0 | 1,898,368 | ||
| Craig Wilsher (R) | 23.1 | 1,821,836 | ||
 | Bruce Jaquays (L)  | 1.3 | 101,066 | |
 | Marc Joseph Sosnowski (U.S. Taxpayers Party) | 0.9 | 71,488 | |
| Susan Odgers (G) | 0.9 | 71,387 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 7,896,243 | |||
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Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
Incumbent Marilyn Kelly and Danielle Atkinson advanced from the Democratic convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors on August 21, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Marilyn Kelly (D) |
| ✔ | | Danielle Atkinson (D) |
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
Christa Murphy and Craig Wilsher advanced from the Republican convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors on August 27, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Christa Murphy (R) | |
| ✔ | Craig Wilsher (R) | |
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Green convention
Green convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
Susan Odgers advanced from the Green convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors on April 23, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Susan Odgers (G) | |
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
Bruce Jaquays advanced from the Libertarian convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors on July 10, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Bruce Jaquays (L) |
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U.S. Taxpayers Party convention
U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats)
Marc Joseph Sosnowski advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Wayne State University Board of Governors on July 23, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Marc Joseph Sosnowski (U.S. Taxpayers Party) |
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Campaign finance
2004
Kelly won re-election with 56% of the vote.[5] Kelly raised $682,710 toward her re-election bid.[6]
1996
Kelly defeated two opponents to win her seat on the court. She received 53% of the total vote.[7] She raised $539,529 during the campaign.[6]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Marilyn Kelly did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Notable positions
Voter ID
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that a state law requiring voters to show photo identification or swear to their identity is constitutional. The ruling was 5 to 2, Republicans to Democrats, accordingly. According to the Los Angeles Times, "critics say the ID requirement is essentially a poll tax that would hit hardest the poor, elderly, disabled and minorities and keep them away from the polls. Supporters say it’s needed to prevent election fraud. The Michigan law requires voters to show photo ID to get a ballot, but it still allows those who don’t have photo IDs to vote if they sign affidavits swearing to their identities." The Supreme Court determined that the ID requirement was not a poll tax because voters could choose to sign the affidavit instead. In the majority opinion, Justice Robert P. Young, Jr. said the requirement was a “reasonable, nondiscriminatory restriction designed to preserve the purity of elections and to prevent abuses of the electoral franchise.” In dissent, Justice Marilyn Kelly said that “history will judge us harshly for joining those states that have limited the precious constitutional right to vote.”[8]
Political ideology
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Kelly received a campaign finance score of -0.88, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was more liberal than the average score of 0.05 that justices received in Michigan.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[9]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Officeholder Wayne State University Board of Governors |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1996 election results
- ↑ CityPulse.com, "Democrats can't wait until November," March 7, 2012
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michigan Supreme Court, Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly
- ↑ Project Vote Smart
- ↑ Michigan Department of State, 2004 Official Michigan General Election Results, 11/2/2004
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Follow the Money: Marilyn Kelly
- ↑ Michigan Department of State, Official General Election Results, 11/5/1996
- ↑ Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
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