Mark J. Plawecki is a district judge from the United States. state of Michigan.
Education
Plawecki attended Detroit Catholic Central and graduated from Dearborn Heights Riverside High school, where he was All-League in tennis, in 1979. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1983 with a bachelor"s degree in Business Administration, and earned his juris doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1987.
Career
His district (the 20th) comprises the city of Dearborn Heights, located in suburban Detroit. He was elected to the seat in 1994, and is currently in his fifth term as Chief Judge for that court. Plawecki then practiced general law, eventually becoming president of the firm Rombach, Plawecki, and Viggiani.
During that time he was also prosecutor for the city of Hazel Park.
Elected to the bench in 1994, Plawecki was the youngest judge (age 33) in Dearborn Heights history. He has been re-elected, without opposition, in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014.
He is a past president of both the Wayne County District Judges Association and the Polish American Legal society (Pouch Attachment Ladder System ) for Michigan. In early 2016, Plawecki was rumored to be a candidate for the Michigan Supreme Court.
Though not having yet announced his candidacy, he has received the key endorsement of the Michigan Association for Justice, a trade group of 1700 attorneys "dedicated to the preservation of justice.".