The Michigan Supreme Court has appointed Ann Arbor attorney Elizabeth Kitchen-Troop to a three-year term on the State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners.
An alumna of the University of Toledo College of Law, Kitchen-Troop co-founded Kitchen Sharkey in Ann Arbor where she practices family law, primarily handling matters including divorce, custody, separate maintenance, paternity, and child support. She also works as a mediator, arbitrator and parenting coordinator.
Kitchen-Troop is actively involved with the Washtenaw County Bar Association, where she served as president from 2016-2017. She was also the president of Women Lawyers of Michigan’s Washtenaw region from 2012-2013 and served on the State Bar of Michigan Representative Assembly from 2015-2017.
Patrick J. Crowley and Claudnyse D. Holloman are also appointed. The three were sworn in at the September 19 Board of Commissioners meeting.
Crowley, who helped found Crowley, Cornish, Rockafellow, & Sartz, PLLC. in Lansing, is the Marquette County Chief Public Defender. He served as assistant prosecuting attorney handling family and district courts in Muskegon and later as trial counsel in Kent, Ionia, and Montcalm counties handling criminal defense, family law, and other general litigation.
His experience also includes service on State Bar or Michigan’s committees related to Character & Fitness, the Lawyer Referral Service, and publications. Crowley graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law.
A Cooley Law School alumna, Holloman is president and CEO of Voices for Children Advocacy Center, serving Genesee and Shiawassee counties. A gubernatorial appointee on the Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice, Holloman also has provided testimony on child abuse and human trafficking to the Michigan House Judiciary Committee. She contributes to national committees including the National Children’s Alliance, Child Death Review, and Children’s Public Policy. She represents children and families in family court
proceedings.
An alumna of the University of Toledo College of Law, Kitchen-Troop co-founded Kitchen Sharkey in Ann Arbor where she practices family law, primarily handling matters including divorce, custody, separate maintenance, paternity, and child support. She also works as a mediator, arbitrator and parenting coordinator.
Kitchen-Troop is actively involved with the Washtenaw County Bar Association, where she served as president from 2016-2017. She was also the president of Women Lawyers of Michigan’s Washtenaw region from 2012-2013 and served on the State Bar of Michigan Representative Assembly from 2015-2017.
Patrick J. Crowley and Claudnyse D. Holloman are also appointed. The three were sworn in at the September 19 Board of Commissioners meeting.
Crowley, who helped found Crowley, Cornish, Rockafellow, & Sartz, PLLC. in Lansing, is the Marquette County Chief Public Defender. He served as assistant prosecuting attorney handling family and district courts in Muskegon and later as trial counsel in Kent, Ionia, and Montcalm counties handling criminal defense, family law, and other general litigation.
His experience also includes service on State Bar or Michigan’s committees related to Character & Fitness, the Lawyer Referral Service, and publications. Crowley graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law.
A Cooley Law School alumna, Holloman is president and CEO of Voices for Children Advocacy Center, serving Genesee and Shiawassee counties. A gubernatorial appointee on the Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice, Holloman also has provided testimony on child abuse and human trafficking to the Michigan House Judiciary Committee. She contributes to national committees including the National Children’s Alliance, Child Death Review, and Children’s Public Policy. She represents children and families in family court
proceedings.
