Retiring judge remembered for fairness, getting Michigan’s driver responsibility fees abolished
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
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KENTWOOD, MI Looking back on his 42-year judicial career as Kentwood’s first district court judge, William Kelly thinks fondly of his father.
Kelly followed in the footsteps of his father, Joseph Kelly, who was a Kentwood municipal judge in the 1970s.
“The last time I had a conversation with my father, I told him I was trying to keep up the good name he established. He said that from what he heard, I had. That always meant a lot,” he said.
Kelly, 73, officially retired as Kentwood’s first and only district court judge on Jan. 1.