Judiciary
Choose accused of sexually harassing colleagues, exhibiting up at courthouse after ingesting alcohol
September 18, 2025, 3:27 pm CDT
Michigan’s Jackson County Circuit Courtroom Choose Thomas Wilson in 2022. (Photograph by J. Scott Park/The Jackson Citizen Patriot through the Related Press)
A misconduct grievance accuses a Michigan decide of sexually harassing feminine colleagues, together with by describing “his sexual actions” and expressing a long-time want for intercourse with a fellow decide.
Choose Thomas D. Wilson of Jackson County can also be accused of exhibiting up on the courthouse after ingesting alcohol; interfering in circumstances, 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 decide since January 2007, abused alcohol beginning between 2013 and 2015 and increasing to 2020 or 2021, in response to the grievance. It additionally states that Wilson mentioned below oath that in that interval, he would generally depart the courthouse, eat alcohol at residence, then return to the courthouse.
Others reported observing Wilson in public outdoors the courthouse “smelling of alcohol, wanting 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 decide disqualified herself from the case, a draft order said that Wilson owed a steadiness of $2,030 in baby assist. Wilson allegedly approached the decide 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 had been tenants in a constructing Wilson owned; attorneys who co-owned properties with Wilson, and attorneys who represented him and family members in numerous authorized issues, the grievance says.
The grievance cites these situations of alleged sexual harassment.
• He described “sexual escapades” to females, telling one decide a couple of companion’s a number of orgasms and telling one other he needed to get his penis checked as a result of it was so pink.
• He advised a feminine decide he knew she was pregnant as a result of “her boobs had been larger.”
• He advised a feminine decide that he had needed to “f— [her] for a very long time.”
• Advised a prosecutor within the worker car parking zone that she had good legs. He additionally advised her in her workplace that she regarded as “scorching” as she used too after dropping a “ton” of weight.
Wilson’s administrative assistant advised 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 in search of remark.
Cranmer advised Bloomberg Legislation that Wilson is a “revered and trusted jurist in Jackson County” they usually sit up for “clearing his identify.”
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