LANSING — On March 16, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the appointments of Christopher P. Yates to the Court of Appeals - District 3, Tony Flores to the 54A District Court of the City of Lansing, and Robert K. Gaecke, Jr. to the 12th District Court of Jackson County.
Flores is currently a professor at WMU-Cooley Law School. He has been a full-time professor since 2005 and currently teaches criminal procedure and evidence.
Previously, Flores was an assistant prosecuting attorney in Mecosta County where he handled the prosecution of criminal cases and in Ingham County where he was the unit chief for child abuse cases.
Flores earned his JD from Cooley Law School and Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the University of Colorado.
He is currently the vice chair of Faculty Governance at Cooley Law School and the chair of the Litigation Concentration.
Flores is a long-time resident of Lansing where he lives with his wife, Karen. They have two daughters Mary Beth and Hope Ann who graduated from Michigan State University and currently work in Southern California.
This appointment was made to fill a partial term, which will commence on April 18, 2022 and expire at twelve o’clock noon on January 1, 2023, after the retirement of Judge Louise Alderson effective January 21, 2022. If Flores wishes to seek a full six-year term, he would be required to run for reelection in November 2022.
