page_title: 1977 in Michigan
section_title: State office holders
hierarchical_section_title: 1977 in Michigan / Office holders / State office holders
caption_attribution_description: English: William G. Milliken 2 (Michigan Governor)
context_page_description: Events from the year 1977 in Michigan.
  The Associated Press selected Michigan's top stories of 1977 as follows:
  The emergence of the Michigan PBB contamination scandal as a political issue and related medical investigation and legislative actions;
  Cold weather through the winter of 1977 with many cities recording the coldest temperatures of the century, Lake Michigan frozen solid, several deaths due to exposure, closure of automobile plants due to natural gas shortages, and snow closing U.S. Route 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo for a week;
  The Oakland County Child Killings involving the unsolved murders of at least four Oakland County youths reportedly tied to the driver of a blue Gremlin;
  The 13-week trial, conviction, and subsequent new trial order in the prosecution of two Filipina nurses, Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez, in the Ann Arbor Hospital Murders in which 10 patients at the Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor died mysteriously from respiratory failure;
context_section_description: Governor of Michigan: William Milliken (Republican)
  Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: James Damman (Republican)
  Michigan Attorney General: Frank J. Kelley (Democrat)
  Michigan Secretary of State: Richard H. Austin (Democrat)
  Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Bobby Crim (Democrat)
  Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate: William Faust (Democrat)
  Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court:
caption: Gov. Milliken
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