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Choose accused of sexually harassing colleagues, exhibiting up at courthouse after ingesting alcohol
By Debra Cassens Weiss
September 18, 2025, 3:27 pm CDT
Michigan’s Jackson County Circuit Court docket Choose Thomas Wilson in 2022. (Photograph by J. Scott Park/The Jackson Citizen Patriot by way of the Related Press)
A misconduct grievance accuses a Michigan choose of sexually harassing feminine colleagues, together with by describing “his sexual actions” and expressing a long-time want for intercourse with a fellow choose.
Choose Thomas D. Wilson of Jackson County can also be accused of exhibiting up on the courthouse after ingesting alcohol; interfering in instances, together with a case involving himself; failing to reveal conflicts of curiosity; and delaying selections.
Law360, Bloomberg Legislation, CBS Information and Click on on Detroit have protection of the Sept. 11 ethics grievance filed by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Fee.
Wilson, who has been a choose since January 2007, abused alcohol beginning between 2013 and 2015 and lengthening to 2020 or 2021, in accordance with the grievance. It additionally states that Wilson stated beneath oath that in that interval, he would generally go away the courthouse, eat alcohol at house, then return to the courthouse.
Others reported observing Wilson in public exterior the courthouse “smelling of alcohol, trying matted or showing flushed,” the grievance says.
The conduct fee says it requested Wilson to take an alcohol evaluation in 2019 however he didn’t achieve this.
The case involving Wilson was his private divorce. After a choose disqualified herself from the case, a draft order said that Wilson owed a steadiness of $2,030 in youngster help. Wilson allegedly approached the choose who disqualified herself and requested her to signal an edited model of her switch order with a zero child-support steadiness.
The undisclosed conflicts of curiosity concerned attorneys who have been tenants in a constructing Wilson owned; attorneys who co-owned properties with Wilson, and attorneys who represented him and family in varied authorized issues, the grievance says.
The grievance cites these cases of alleged sexual harassment.
• He described “sexual escapades” to females, telling one choose a few companion’s a number of orgasms and telling one other he needed to get his penis checked as a result of it was so purple.
• He informed a feminine choose he knew she was pregnant as a result of “her boobs have been larger.”
• He informed a feminine choose that he had needed to “f— [her] for a very long time.”
• He informed a prosecutor within the worker car parking zone that she had good legs. He additionally informed her in her workplace that she appeared as “sizzling” as she used to after shedding a “ton” of weight.
Wilson’s administrative assistant informed the ABA Journal he was directing all requests for remark to his lawyer, Thomas Cranmer of Miller Canfield. Cranmer didn’t instantly reply to the ABA Journal’s voicemail looking for remark.
Cranmer informed Bloomberg Legislation that Wilson is a “revered and trusted jurist in Jackson County” they usually look ahead to “clearing his title.”
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