Background
Judge Saad received his bachelor's degree from Wayne State University School of Business with honors and his law degree from Wayne State University, magna cum laude. He was a partner at Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, where he practiced law for twenty years. He was also an arbitrator for the Michigan Employment Relations Commission and a hearing referee for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.
On October 2, 1992, President George H.W. Bush nominated Saad to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, but the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee of the 102nd Congress failed to give him a hearing and let his nomination lapse.
Saad was appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 1994, was elected for a six-year term in 1996, and was re-elected to a six-year term in 2002.
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