Michael Warren

Judge Michael Warren is an Oakland County Circuit Court Judge. Appointed by Governor John Engler to the Oakland County Circuit Court in 2002, he was elected in 2004, 2006, 2012, and 2018. Judge Warren has served twice as the Presiding Judge of the General Civil/Criminal Division of the Oakland Circuit Court. He is the sponsor and pilot judge for e-filing and paperless courtroom projects; served on the Michigan Supreme Court Committee on Model Jury Instructions; and served on Oakland Bar Association committees on Diversity and the Circuit Court. He serves on the Judicial Outreach Committee of the Michigan Judges Association. He was recognized as the Judge of the Year in 2018, and Judge of the Decade, by the International Association of Top Professionals.

He is the co-founder of Patriot Week (www.PatriotWeek.org) (which is unanimously proclaimed by the US Senate), Chair and President of the Patriot Week Foundation, and co-producer of the community cable show Patriot Lessons. He has teaches Constitutional Law at Western Michigan Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

He is the author of, inter alia, America’s Survival Guide, How to Stop America’s Impending Suicide by Reclaiming Our First Principles and History (2007), www.AmericasSurvivalGuide.com; How to Kit: Obtain a Finding of Contempt of Court for Failure to Obey an Order or Judgment of the Court, Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE); and Contempt of Court & Broken Windows, Why Ignoring Contempt of Court Undermines Justice, the Rule of Law, and Republican Self-Government (Engage). He also authored Constitutional Law, 56 Wayne L. Rev. 991 (2010), Constitutional Law, 57 Wayne L. Rev. 779 (2011), and Constitutional Law, 63 Wayne L. Rev. 485 (2018).

Judge Warren is a former member of the Michigan State Board of Education. Before serving as a member of the Board, he was employed as the State Board’s legal and policy advisor. After leaving the State Board of Education, he served on the State Board’s Task Force on Social Studies, and has helped develop the Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations for Social Studies. He is a trustee for the Michigan Council on Economics Education, and former a Board Member and Education Chair of Cornestone Education Group, and the former Chair of Cornerstone Schools Association.

He is the chair of the Oakland County’s Bicentennial Executive Committee. He also served on the Advisory Boards of the Michigan Civics Institute and Michigan School Board Leaders Association. Judge Warren is a former partner of the Detroit-based law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, where he concentrated on business transactions, corporations, and securities work. He also served as the Executive Director for The New Common School Foundation and Vice President of Cornerstone Schools Association. Following graduation from law school, Judge Warren was a clerk to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley. e has a B.A., 1989, magna cum laude Wayne State University; and J.D., 1992, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School.

He has received the Distinguished Public Servant Award from the Oakland County Bar Association, The Great Influence Award from the Michigan Council for the Social Studies, a Special Tribute from the Michigan Legislature, the Distinguished Jurist Award from the Women Lawyers Bar Association of Michigan (Oakland County), the H. Wallace Parker Preservation of Justice Award from the Northern Oakland County NAACP, and the Frances R. Avadenka Memorial Award (significant contributions to the community outside of the legal profession) from the Oakland County Bar Association.