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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1977 / Served to 1992

Albert L. Rendlen

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Albert L. Rendlen was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1977–1992 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rendlen authored 227 published opinions for the court (1977–1992), plus 57 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Gustafson v. Benda (268 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 154 of these were attributed to Rendlen by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1983	Gustafson v. Benda· Dissent†	661 S.W.2d 11	268
1982	State v. Newlon	627 S.W.2d 606	237
1981	State v. Turner	623 S.W.2d 4	198
1979	State v. Higgins	592 S.W.2d 151	191
1989	Burnett v. Griffith· Concurrence†	769 S.W.2d 780	186
1983	State v. Smith	649 S.W.2d 417	186
1981	State v. Harris	620 S.W.2d 349	167
1980	Sours v. State· Dissent†	593 S.W.2d 208	167
1980	Sours v. State· Dissent†	603 S.W.2d 592	161
1985	Collins v. Director of Revenue· Dissent†	691 S.W.2d 246	157
1991	King General Contractors, Inc. v. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints	821 S.W.2d 495	149
1991	Mehra v. Mehra	819 S.W.2d 351	143
1981	State v. Haggard· Concurrence†	619 S.W.2d 44	135
1984	Sanders v. Daniel International Corp.· Dissent†	682 S.W.2d 803	134
1987	State v. Schneider	736 S.W.2d 392	133

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Albert L. Rendlen on?: Albert L. Rendlen was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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15 years on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).