TECUMSEH — He’s blunt, he’s always chewing on a Cristobol cigar, and has a passion for Newfoundland dogs and sour cream doughnuts, but it all works for Tecumseh attorney Michael Brooks.
Brooks, 76, will be one of the honorees when the State Bar of Michigan hosts its annual 50-Year Golden Celebration luncheon May 25 at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth to honor attorneys with 50 years of membership with the State Bar of Michigan.
Brooks will have his 50 years as an attorney this December and has no plans of retiring soon.
“I’m doing exactly what I want to do, exactly where I want to do it, and it hasn’t changed since I was about 12 years old. I wanted to be a small-town lawyer and I am a small-town lawyer,” Brooks said. “I’m from Adrian and I liked knowing what was going on around me, and there were two really good places to do that — one of them was a bank and the other one was being a lawyer. The people who work in those institutions have a pretty fair idea of what’s going on around them. I always enjoyed knowing that. Still do.”
Brooks grew up in Adrian first attending St. Joseph Grade School, which is no longer functioning, but the building still stands at St. Joseph Catholic Church. From there he went on to attend Adrian Catholic Central High School where he graduated in the Class of 1965. The school closed four years later, but not before his younger brother and sister also graduated from the school.
“That’s probably the educational experience I’m most proud of. My...
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