LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 26, 2026) – The judicial tenure of Brad Knoll will end six months early.
On Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court approved a consent order that allows the 58th District Court judge to retire, effective on July 1st. This is six months prior to the 74-year-old jurist’s scheduled departure due to state-mandated retirement requirement that no sitting judge can be reelected past the age of 70.
Knoll, who won the first of his four six-year terms to the bench in 2002, entered into the consent order after the state Judicial Tenure Commission filed two public complaints against him last April. In an incident late in 2023, Knoll admitted striking his wife after she had intervened when the jurist was attempting to discipline her 12-year-old grandson, who was resisting efforts to go to school.
He was sentenced to four months probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor domestic violence count, and remained on the bench since the incident, recusing himself only on cases involving domestic violence.
Governor Whitmer will be asked to appoint a replacement for Knoll, who would serve the remaining six months of this term.
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