04/16/2025
Congratulations to Judge Yokich!
Congratulations to the Honorable Tracey Yokich, our 2025 Mary S. Coleman Leadership Award Recipient!
Mary S. Coleman was the first woman Michigan Supreme Court Justice. This award is given each year to a current or former member of the Michigan federal, state, or tribal judiciary whose leadership, talent, and significant contributions to women provide a role model for women in the profession and women in general.
Judge Tracey A. Yokich was appointed to the Macomb County Probate Court by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm on July 1, 2003 and was elected to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court for the County of Macomb in 2004. She is a 1982 graduate of James Madison College at Michigan State University and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1985. Judge Yokich subsequently clerked for the Hon. George Clifton Edwards, Jr. in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, OH.
Judge Yokich returned to Michigan and served as a Macomb County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, from 1986 to 1989, Macomb County Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1989 to 1990. She returned to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney in 1997.
She has also served three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives representing the citizens of Eastpointe, St. Clair Shores, Lake Township and Harrison Township from 1991-1996. During her tenure in the Michigan House of Representatives, Judge Yokich served on the Appropriations Committee, Judiciary Committee, Public Health Committee, and the Conservation, Environment, and Great Lakes Committee.
Judge Yokich is a Michigan State Bar Foundation Fellow, an active member of the Women Lawyers of Michigan – Macomb and a Past President of the Michigan Judges Association. She is a member of the Selfridge Base Community Council, the Michigan Air Guard Historical Association and served in the Michigan Air National Guard from 1995-2006.
Join us at our Annual Meeting on April 26th where our awardees will be honored.
Register here, https://womenlawyers.org/new/about-wlam/wlam-annual-meeting/
Photo of Judges Doreen Allen (ret.), Annette Barry, Shelia Johnson, and Tracey Yokich in front of the Mary S. Coleman portrait at the Michigan Supreme Court.