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Kimberly Thomas
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Background: Her career experience includes working as a law professor and running the Juvenile Justice Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. Thomas served on the Michigan Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform and has received a U.S. Fulbright Scholar award.
At a glance
- Court
- Michigan Supreme Court
- Position / seat
- Not listed
- Chief justice
- No
- How they joined the court
- Elected
- Appointed by
- Not applicable (elected)
- Appointment date
- Not applicable (elected)
- Took office
- January 1, 2025
- Current term ends
- January 1, 2033
- Next election or retention vote
- Not listed
- Last election
- November 5, 2024
- Party (as listed by Ballotpedia)
- Democratic
- Ballotpedia partisanship estimate
- Not listed
- Education
- Bachelor's: University of Maryland, College Park
- Law: Harvard Law School
- Prior offices
- Not listed
- Profession
- Professor
- How this court's justices are chosen
- Michigan methodPolitical parties nominate candidates, then voters choose in a general election where no party label appears on the ballot.
Summary of facts listed on Kimberly Thomas’s Ballotpedia page (retrieved Oct 26, 2026) · Photo: Ballotpedia. “Not listed” means Ballotpedia didn’t list it in a form this site could read; check Ballotpedia for the latest.
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