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<b>Mary Ellen Brennan</b> is a judge of the <a href="/6th_Circuit_Court,_Michigan" title="6th Circuit Court, Michigan">6th Circuit Court</a> in <a href="/Oakland_County,_Michigan_(Judicial)" title="Oakland County, Michigan (Judicial)">Oakland County</a>, <a href="/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>. She was elected to the court on <a href="/C2008#November" class="mw-redirect" title="C2008">November 4, 2008</a>, and assumed office in January 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> On November 4, 2014, Brennan was re-elected unopposed for another six-year term commencing on January 1, 2015, and expiring on December 31, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-candidate_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-candidate-3">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;
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<p><span class="see-also"><i>See also: <a href="/Michigan_judicial_elections,_2014" title="Michigan judicial elections, 2014">Michigan judicial elections, 2014</a></i></span><br>
Brennan ran for re-election to the <a href="/6th_Circuit_Court,_Michigan" title="6th Circuit Court, Michigan">6th Circuit Court</a>.<br><b>General</b>: She was unopposed in the general election on November 4, 2014.
<sup id="cite_ref-candidate_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-candidate-3">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;
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<p>Brennan received her undergraduate degree from James Madison College of Michigan State University and her <a href="/J.D." class="mw-redirect" title="J.D.">J.D.</a> degree from the Wayne State University Law School.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span></h2>
<ul><li><b>2009-2020:</b> Judge, <a href="/6th_Circuit_Court,_Michigan" title="6th Circuit Court, Michigan">6th Circuit Court</a></li>
<li><b>2002-2008:</b> Judicial staff attorney, <a href="/Michigan_Forty-fourth_Judicial_District_Court" title="Michigan Forty-fourth Judicial District Court">44th Judicial District Court</a></li>
<li><b>1998-2002:</b> Assistant city attorney, Royal Oak</li>
<li><b>1996-1998:</b> Assistant general counsel, Meadowbrook Insurance Group</li>
<li><b>1990-1996:</b> Assistant prosecutor, <a href="/Oakland_County,_Michigan_(Judicial)" title="Oakland County, Michigan (Judicial)">Oakland County</a> <sup id="cite_ref-bio_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-1">[1]</a></sup></li></ul>
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<h3><span id="Sentencing_of_teenager_to_juvenile_detention_for_alleged_probation_violation_during_coronavirus_pandemic_.282020.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Sentencing_of_teenager_to_juvenile_detention_for_alleged_probation_violation_during_coronavirus_pandemic_(2020)">Sentencing of teenager to juvenile detention for alleged probation violation during coronavirus pandemic (2020)</span></h3>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/School_responses_to_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic_during_the_2019-2020_academic_year" title="School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year">School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2019-2020 academic year</a></i></dd>
<dd><i>See also: <a href="/Debate_over_school_closures_during_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020" title="Debate over school closures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020">Debate over school closures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl>
<p>On April 21, 2020, Judge Brennan sentenced a 15-year-old Michigan resident known by the pseudonym Grace to probation for charges of larceny and assault. The charges were originally filed in November 2019. Among the terms of Grace's probation were requirements to speak regularly with a court caseworker and to complete remote schoolwork following the closure of schools due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Prior to her school's closure, Grace had various additional accommodations and supports in place as part of an "Individualized Education Plan." The plan stemmed from Grace's educational needs due to diagnoses of ADHD and a mood disorder, and Grace's mother told media reporters that Grace did not receive these supports in a remote learning environment.<sup id="cite_ref-investigation_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-investigation-4">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>On May 5, the caseworker assigned to Grace filed a probation violation against Grace, alleging that she was not completing her schoolwork in a timely manner. <i>ProPublica</i> reported that the caseworker contacted Grace's teacher for the first time three days after filing the probation violation to ask if Grace was completing her academic requirements, and that Grace's teacher responded by saying that Grace was "not out of alignment with most of my other students."<sup id="cite_ref-investigation_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-investigation-4">[4]</a></sup> On May 14, Brennan ruled that Grace had violated her probation on the grounds of "failure to submit any schoolwork and getting up for school." Brennan ordered Grace's detention; Grace was subsequently placed in secure detention for three weeks at an institution and later moved to residential treatment within the institution.<sup id="cite_ref-detention_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-detention-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>Attorneys representing Grace and her mother requested that Grace be released from detention, saying that Grace did not receive sufficient academic support and mental health treatment at the facility where she was detained. A statement from the case's prosecutor also argued for Grace's release. Statements from Grace's caseworker and staff at the facility argued that Grace should stay in the institution until reaching completion of the treatment program.<sup id="cite_ref-detention_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-detention-5">[5]</a></sup> On July 20, Brennan declined to release Grace from detention and said that though "This is not an easy decision to make," she thought Grace was "exactly where she was supposed to be."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> In the hearing, Brennan said of her decision to order Grace's detention, "She was not detained because she didn’t turn her homework in. She was detained because I found her to be a threat of harm to her mother based on everything I knew."<sup id="cite_ref-detention_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-detention-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>Grace's detention received national attention from media sources and the public. The group Michigan Liberation organized a protest outside Grace's school and the Oakland County courthouse in response to Brennan's decision to decline the request for release.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> A Change.org petition demanding Grace's release also circulated online.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> The <a href="/Michigan_Supreme_Court" title="Michigan Supreme Court">Michigan Supreme Court</a> issued a statement in July that the court "is working with the Oakland County Circuit Court to examine the processes in this case."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup>
</p><p>On July 31, 2020, the <a href="/Michigan_Court_of_Appeals" title="Michigan Court of Appeals">Michigan Court of Appeals</a> ordered Grace's release from the juvenile detention center. Judge Brennan "adopted a caseworker’s recommendation that Grace be released from probation and that her case be closed" on August 11, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="/Oakland_County,_Michigan_(Judicial)" title="Oakland County, Michigan (Judicial)">Oakland County, Michigan</a></li>
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<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://courts.mi.gov/self-help/directories/pages/consolidated-directory.aspx?county=Oakland"><i>Michigan Courts</i>, "Trial Court Directory: Oakland County"</a></li></ul>
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