Background
She graduated fromI have known Judge Griffin since 1992, when I first joined the Michigan Court of Appeals. I was fortunate to hear cases on panels with Judge Griffin on many occasions during my seven years as a Court of Appeals judge. Judge Griffin is intellectually gifted. He is a spirited questioner who 'cuts to the chase'. He is consistently well-prepared for oral argument and offers incisive views on the assigned cases to his colleagues. He is current in all his own writing assignments and promptly circulates his votes on his colleagues' opinions. He acquired excellent work habits from private practice that he applies to the business of appellate judging
/blockquote> Corrigan had been mentioned as a George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates, potential nominee to the Supreme Court following the announced retirement ofSandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American retired attorney and politician who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was both the first woman nominated and th ...and the withdrawal ofHarriet Miers Harriet Ellan Miers (born August 10, 1945) is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party since 1988, she previously served as White House Staff Secretary f ..., and before President Bush's nomination ofSamuel Alito Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. ( ; born April 1, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served ....Jan Crawford Greenburg Jan Crawford, also known as Jan Crawford Greenburg, is a television journalist, author, and attorney. She serves as a political correspondent and chief legal correspondent for CBS News and previously for ABC News. She appears regularly on the CBS ...recounted in her history of contemporary Supreme Court nominations that Corrigan declined to be considered for a vacancy because she did not desire to go through the ordeal of the nomination and confirmation process. Corrigan advocates the judicial philosophy oftextualism Textualism is a formalist theory in which the interpretation of the law is primarily based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as intention of the law when passed, the ..., which "promotes adherence to the actual text of statutes". In an article in the ''New York University Annual Survey of American Law'', Corrigan argued that resort to history in interpreting a statute is a form of "dice loading". Maura D. Corrigan has two children, and five grand children. She was the wife of the late lawyer, Joe Grano. Her estimated net worth is 2 million dollars in U.S. currency.
Michigan Department of Human Services
TheMichigan Department of Human Services The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is a principal department of state of Michigan, headquartered in Lansing, that provides public assistance, child and family welfare services, and oversees health policy and management. ...(DHS) is the state's second-largest agency. The DHS oversees almost 12,000 employees and has an annual budget of more than $6 billion to administer federal programs. The DHS staff handles more than 1.5 million medical assistance cases and approximately 1.7 million cash and food-assistance cases all across Michigan. It oversees Michigan's child and adult protective services, foster care, adoptions, juvenile justice, domestic violence, and child-support programs. The DHS also licenses adult foster care, child day care and child welfare facilities. In 2011 she caused major controversy in cutting students' access to food benefits. She also made headlines with statements about students' work ethic and their access to jobs. As DHS Director she oversaw the state's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program during the Flint water crisis.
Board positions
Corrigan sits on the board of research organizationChild Trends Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Bethesda, Maryland that conducts research on children, children's families, child well-being, and factors affecting children's lives. History Child Trends was founded in 1979 and ....
See also
*George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by President George W. Bush since before his presidency. In the summer of 2005, this speculation became newsworthy due to the announcement of the retireme ...
References
External links
Michigan Supreme Court website
Campaign contributions made by Maura Corrigan
Michigan Supreme Court Commentary Blog
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