Mike Dettmer

The State Bar of Michigan’s Negligence Section will present its Outstanding Achievement Award to NAFUSA member Mike Dettmer at the Negligent Section’s Annual Summer Meeting in Traverse City on August 9, 2018.

Currently of counsel to the firm of Olson, Bzdok & Howard in Traverse City, where he still maintains an active mediation/alternative dispute resolution practice, Mike has had as interesting and diverse a career as any. He has been a trial lawyer for more than 45 years, served for many years on the State Bar Board of Commissioners, helped the state bar address the lawyer malpractice insurance crisis in the late 1980s, and was one of the founders of Michigan Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, where he eventually served as president and CEO. He also served the State Bar of Michigan as its 59th president. He was appointed by President Clinton to serve as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, where he served 1994-2001.