# Michelle Ambrozaitis

Circuit Judge · [55th Circuit Court](/kyj/court/mi/55th-circuit-court-clare)

Last updated October 7, 2026

## Michelle Ambrozaitis at a glance

Current role

Circuit Judge

Court

[55th Circuit Court](/kyj/court/mi/55th-circuit-court-clare)

Jurisdiction

Michigan · State

Judicial service

Active

## Biography

### Professional career

- Michelle J. Ambrozaitis is a judge of the Michigan 55th Circuit Court, serving in both Clare and Gladwin Counties, and was officially invested as a judge in January 2025

- On January 17, 2025, Ambrozaitis’s official investiture as a 55th Circuit Court judge was held in Harrison, MI, attended by fellow judges, elected officials, and community members

- Chief Judge Joshua M. Farrell noted that he and Ambrozaitis were law school classmates in 1997, later reconnected through their legal careers, and that she was elected prosecutor and judge on the same day in the same town in 2008

- Michelle J. Ambrozaitis is listed as a Circuit Court Judge for the 55th Circuit Court, which is the trial court with the broadest powers in Michigan

### Education

### Additional information

- Michelle J. Ambrozaitis is an active attorney admitted to the Michigan bar on November 29, 2001, employed by the 55th Circuit Court.

- It handles major civil cases over $25,000, felony criminal cases, family matters (divorce, custody, adoptions, juvenile cases, etc.), and appeals from lower courts.

- She has no pending proceedings and is not maintaining private malpractice insurance, consistent with full-time judicial service

## Applicable Court Rules & Procedures

Rules last checked July 26, 2026 .

### Remote appearances

Michigan courts may determine the manner and extent of videoconferencing technology, subject to participant requests and suitability factors under MCR 2.407.

If a Michigan proceeding will be held by videoconferencing technology, the court must provide reasonable notice of how to access it.

### Recording and broadcasting

Michigan prohibits photography, audio or video recording, broadcasting, or live streaming in a courtroom unless allowed by the presiding judge, subject to the separate media-coverage order.

### Device Use

Michigan allows courtroom use of portable electronic devices for information retrieval, storage, internet access, and messaging, but requires silence and bars calls or other audible functions without court permission.

## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

55th Circuit Court

Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory.

55th Circuit Court

Michigan Circuit Court appellate proceedings only; retained September 2, 2026 compilation. Source exceptions and later amendments apply.

## Sources

Identity source checked July 26, 2026 .

Biography sources checked July 26, 2026 .

### Michigan Courts official judicial roster

Identity source · HTML · Source checked July 26, 2026

### Michigan Court Rule 2.407, Videoconferencing

Statewide source · HTML · Source checked July 26, 2026

### Michigan Court Rule 8.115, Courthouse Decorum and Portable Electronic Devices

Statewide source · HTML · Source checked July 26, 2026

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