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Nino E. Green
A 1963 graduate of Wayne Law School, he began his career in Detroit in 1964 and practiced law in Common Pleas and Recorder’s Courts, the Circuit Courts for Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Ingham, and sever...view moreA 1963 graduate of Wayne Law School, he began his career in Detroit in 1964 and practiced law in Common Pleas and Recorder’s Courts, the Circuit Courts for Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Ingham, and several other lower Michigan counties and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He left Detroit in 1966 to become the first executive director of Upper Peninsula Legal Services, a position that he held for two and a half years.
In 1969, he entered the private practice of law in Escanaba and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representative un 1970. In 1976, he became the senior partner in the Escanaba-based law firm of Green, Renner, Weisse, Rettig, Rademecher, and Clark.
He has appeared before all the district and circuit courts in the Upper Peninsula as well as in the United States District Courts for the Western District of Michigan and the District of Minnesota, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, and the US Sixth and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
He has also practiced before National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Aviation Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, and Michigan’s Employment Relations Commission, Workers’ Compensation Board, Employment Security Commission, Department of Civil Rights, Civil Service Commission, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Corrections, and State Employee’s Retirement System.
He has been a member of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission and the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. He was the 2003 recipient of the John W. Cummiskey Pro Bono Award and has been recognized by the Legal Services Corporation for his involvement in delivering legal services to the poor. He recently retired as chairperson of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern Michigan.view less