Bridget Mary McCormack, Date of Birth

Bridget Mary McCormack

American judge

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1966

Profession: judge, lawyer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Bridget Mary McCormack (born July 23, 1966) is the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, a position she has held since January 9, 2019.
She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Prior to her election to the court as associate justice in 2012, she was a professor at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.
She taught criminal law and legal ethics and oversaw the law school's clinical programs as associate dean of clinical affairs.
Her academic work focused on practical experience in legal education.McCormack launched and worked in a pediatric advocacy law clinic focusing on children with health problems, and a domestic violence clinic.
She is founder of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, the first innocence clinic in the country that exclusively handles non-DNA evidence cases.In November 2012, she was elected a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, to replace Marilyn Kelly, who was retiring from the bench.
McCormack resigned from her position at the university before joining the Court.
In seeking a seat on the Court, McCormack ran an independent outsider campaign, and was not a favorite of the Michigan Democratic Party establishment, though she ultimately received the party's endorsement.