{"id":248504,"date":"2026-04-02T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:17:25","slug":"nicole-huddleston-appointed-to-oakland-county-probate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248504\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Huddleston Appointed to Oakland County Probate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallowayhommel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-164074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GasllowayHommel_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Huddleston Appointed to Oakland County Probate Court<\/p>\n<p>(State of Michigan, April 2, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Oakland County, MI -Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced the appointments of Nicole Huddleston to the Oakland County Probate Court, Judge Allison Bates to the 4th Circuit Court in Jackson County, Nicole Hughes to the 12th District Court in Jackson County, and Zachary Stempien to the 15th Circuit Court in Branch County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to appoint these\u00a0great\u00a0Michiganders\u00a0to the bench,\u201d said\u00a0Governor Whitmer. \u201cThese skilled legal professionals bring years of experience and dedication to their communities to their new roles. I am confident they will serve the people of Michigan admirably and uphold the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Huddleston, of\u00a0West Bloomfield, is\u00a0the\u00a0owner\u00a0of\u00a0Huddleston\u00a0Law, PLLC, a firm specializing in probate, family, and civil law. Huddleston previously served as managing director at the Detroit Justice Center and as a staff attorney at Detroit Justice Center, Lakeshore Legal Aid, and Legal Aid and Defender. Huddleston is a member of the Tri-Community Coalition, Youth Connections, and the Straker Bar Association. Huddleston is also a member of the Executive Board of Matrix Theater and often serves as a volunteer attorney at expungement fairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collensestatelaw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-163101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CEL_Oakland_County_Times_V3_Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huddleston holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Oakland University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sincerely honored and humbled by this appointment from Governor Whitmer, and I am grateful to her and her team for their thoughtful consideration throughout this process,\u201d said Huddleston. \u201cIt is a privilege to serve the people of Oakland County and this great state. I remain committed to advancing a justice system grounded in fairness, integrity, and efficiency, and I will work hard every day to uphold the trust that has been placed in me. Thank you again, Governor Whitmer, for this tremendous honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/04\/02\/nicole-huddleston-appointed-to-oakland-county-probate-court\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/>Save this post to PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/04\/02\/nicole-huddleston-appointed-to-oakland-county-probate-court\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/>Print this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Huddleston Appointed to Oakland County Probate Court (State of Michigan, April 2, 2026) Oakland County, MI -Governor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-248504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}