Michael Carland was born in Detroit in 1906, and died in Durand July 30, 1984.
In December 1959, Michael Carland was sworn in as Circuit Judge of the 35th Judicial Circuit, comprising Shiawassee and Livingston counties, for a term of six years.
Judge Carland served in that position until his retirement on September 30, 1917. Livingston County was split from that Circuit in 1968