Megan Kathleen Cavanagh (born July 17, 1971)[1] is an attorney who was elected in November 2018 to become an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court with a term beginning in January 2019.
Cavanagh was born in Lansing, Michigan, and educated in the public schools.
She was raised in a family immersed in state politics with Michael Cavanagh, her father, serving as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1991 to 1995, and her uncle, Jerome Cavanagh, elected in the 1960s as Mayor of Detroit.
[7] In the November 6, 2018, election Cavanagh won a seat when she received the second-most votes for the Supreme Court, receiving 25.2 percent of the vote, and unseating Kurtis T. Wilder who came in third.
[10][11] She was the first person to join their parent as a member of the Michigan Supreme Court since 1857.