James H. Brickley

James H. Brickley (November 15, 1928 – September 28, 2001) was the 54th and 56th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan and a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1982 to 1999. He was a Republican. Died report in Traverse City, Michigan in 2001 - Traverse City Paper.

Biography

Brickley was born in Flint, Michigan. He received his bachelors and law degrees from the University of Detroit and then a masters of law degree from New York University.

Brickley served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan from 1971 to 1975 and again from 1979 to 1983 under Governor William Milliken. From 1975 until 1978 he was president of Eastern Michigan University. Brickley was appointed in December 1982 to replace retiring justice Mary S. Coleman. He resigned from the Michigan Supreme Court in October 1999 and Governor John Engler appointed US Attorney Stephen Markman to replace him.

From 1995 to 1996 Brickley was the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.^[1]

Notes

↑ Biography of James H. Brickley

Political offices
Preceded by Thomas F. Schweigert	Lieutenant Governor of Michigan 1971–1975	Succeeded by James Damman
Preceded by James Damman	Lieutenant Governor of Michigan 1979–1983	Succeeded by Martha W. Griffiths

Lieutenant Governors of Michigan

Mundy Gordon Drake Richardson Greenly Bush Fenton Britain Parsons Griswold Coe Fairfield Birney Williams Backus C. May Grosvenor D. May Bates Holt Sessions Crosby Buttars MacDonald Ball Strong Giddings Milnes McLaughlin Dunstan Robinson Maitland Kelley Ross Dickinson Read Welsh Dickinson Stebbins Read Nowicki Dickinson Wilson Murphy Keyes Connolly Vandenberg Reid Hart Swainson Lesinski Milliken Schweigert Brickley Damman Brickley Griffiths Binsfeld Posthumus Cherry Calley

Presidents of Eastern Michigan University

Adonijah Welch (1851)
David P. Mayhew (1865)
Charles Bellows (1870)
Joseph Estabrook (1871)
Malcolm MacVicar (1880)
Daniel Putnam (1880)
Edwin Willits (1883)
Daniel Putnam (1885)
John Sill (1886)
Richard G. Boone (1893)
Elmer Lyman (1900)
Lewis H. Jones (1903)
Charles McKenny (1912)
John M. Munson (1933)
Eugene Elliott (1948)
Harold Sponberg (1965)
Ralph Gilden # (1974)
James H. Brickley (1974)
John W. Porter (1979)
William E. Shelton (1989)
Samuel A. Kirkpatrick (2001)
Craig D. Willis # (2004)
John A. Fallon III (2005)
Donald M. Loppnow # (2007)
Susan Martin (2008)
Kim Schatzel # (2015)
Donald M. Loppnow # (2016)

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