Chief Justice announces her retirement from bench

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack announced Monday she is retiring no later than Dec. 31 but not before Nov. 22, according to a press release from the court. McCormack, who became the 108th justice and the ninth woman to join the Court when she was sworn in as an associate justice on Jan. 1, 2013, told Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Monday that she is leaving two years into an eight-year term. “A decade can be a common measuring point for personal and professional change," she wrote in a letter to colleagues and court staff. "Over the last 10 years,

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