Receiving his law degree from the University of Detroit Law School in Michigan, attorney Cullen McKinney is a founding partner at Tanoury Nauts McKinney and Garbarino, PLLC, also known as TNMG Law. While attending law school, Cullen McKinney served as an intern for Patricia Boyle, a former judge of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Boyle began her judicial career as a judge in the City of Detroit Recorders’ Office in 1976 after she served as a United States assistant attorney in the mid-1960s. In 1978, US president Jimmy Carter nominated Boyle for a lifetime position as a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
She served the Eastern District for five years before resigning to becoming an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1983. Many people were surprised when she gave up the Eastern District post, but her son Jason Pernick, an assistant prosecutor in Oakland County, Michigan, said she felt that she could do more for the people of Michigan as a supreme court justice. Patricia Boyle died in 2014 at the age of 76.
