Editing Jerome Cavanagh (section)

==Early life and family==
Jerome P. Cavanagh was born on June 16, 1928, in Detroit, the son of Mary Irene (Timmins) and Sylvester J. Cavanaugh, a [[boilermaker]] at [[Ford Motor Company]].<ref name = "phoo">{{Cite news| title = Phooie on Louie: African American Detroit and the Election of Jerry Cavanagh | author = Joseph Turrini | newspaper = Michigan History | date = Nov–Dec 1999| url = http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/mhc_mag_phooie-on-louie_308397_7.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-A6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Sylvester+J.+and+Mary+Irene+(Timmins)+C%22|title=Who's who in American Law|year=2003|publisher=Marquis Who's Who |isbn=9780837935201}}</ref> He attended the [[University of Detroit]], earning an undergraduate degree in 1950 and a law degree in 1954, and practiced law in Detroit after graduation.<ref name = "phoo"/> He was active in [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politics while attending school, and afterward served in low-level appointed positions as an administrative assistant at the [[Michigan State Fair]] Authority and as a member of the Metropolitan Airport Board of Zoning Appeals.<ref name = "phoo"/> Cavanagh was a [[Roman Catholic]]. He is the brother of Mike Cavanagh, a former Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1983–2014) and father of eight children, among whom are Mark Jerome Cavanagh, since 1989 a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals, David Peter Cavanagh and Christopher Francis Cavanagh (both former Wayne County Commissioners), and [[Phil Cavanagh]] (a former member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]]).