Mr. Patrick J. Wright

Punishing the Good Neighbor

Sept. 30, 2009 General Article

Lisa Snyder has watched (without compensation) a five-year old kindergartener for her widowed neighbor and a seven-year old boy for another neighbor for a short period of time as they wait for the school bus. The Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) made national news by demanding that she become a licensed day care provider. But what has largely been overlooked is that if Ms. Snyder were to go through the licensing process, she would thereby become a member of a purported government employees’ union.

Mackinac Center Launches Legal Foundation; Sues DHS

Sept. 18, 2009 General Article

Litigation Backgrounder: Loar v. DHS

Sept. 16, 2009 General Article

Taking Liberties

June 17, 2009 Property Rights Network Refuge

News Release: State Attorney General Agrees That Michigan Film Office Violated State Law by Failing to Disclose Required Film Spending Information

April 30, 2009 News Release

Howell Education Association v. Howell Board of Education

April 15, 2009 General Article

President’s Merit Pay Idea Merits Attention

March 30, 2009 General Article

News Release: Film Office Report Violates Michigan Law and the Spirit of Sunshine Week

March 19, 2009 News Release

Digging Ourselves a Deeper Hole

March 9, 2009 Viewpoint on Public Issues

'Hobbes vs. Locke': The battle continues

Feb. 20, 2009 Property Rights Network Refuge

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Patrick Wright is senior legal analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, where he directs the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. He joined the Center in June 2005 after serving for three years as a Michigan Supreme Court commissioner, a post in which he made recommendations to the court concerning which state appeals court cases it should hear.

Prior to that, Wright spent four years as an assistant attorney general for the State of Michigan, where he gained significant litigation and appellate advocacy experience. He joined the state Attorney General’s Office after one year as a policy advisor in the Senate Majority Policy Office of the Michigan Senate. Wright also spent two years as a law clerk to Hon. H. Russell Holland, a United States district court judge in Alaska.

Wright received his law degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He graduated with honors in 1994. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 1990.

Wright lives in Chelsea, Mich., with his wife and sons.