James C. Howell (born April 29, 1949) is an American lawyer and politician from

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. He is a former member of the

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who represented a portion of

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from 1999 through 2004. He attended Millington High School and is a 1967 graduate of St. Paul's Seminary in Michigan. He graduated from Delta College with an

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with a

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, and from

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with a

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.Jim Howell's Biography
/ref> Howell was an air traffic controller in the

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and an officer with the Saginaw County Sheriff's Department and the Saginaw Police Department from 1972 to 1981. He also was an attorney for

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from 1981 to 1983, and practiced privately from 1983 until his election to the House in 1998. Howell is a vocal advocate for Michigan's system of no-fault auto insurance because his son was critically injured in an accident in 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he was an Assistant Attorney General of Michigan. Since 2010 he has served as President of Sammael, Inc. He was a judicial candidate for the 10th Circuit Court in Michigan in 2010. He lost to James Borchard.Election Results
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1949 births Living people People from St. Charles, Michigan Saginaw Valley State University alumni Western Michigan University Cooley Law School alumni Michigan lawyers Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Michigan Legislature 20th-century members of the Michigan Legislature {{Michigan-MIRepresentative-stub