How do judges of the Missouri Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Missouri Court of Appeals / Joined 2007 / Active

Alok Ahuja

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Alok Ahuja is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ahuja authored 350 published opinions for the court (2008–2025), plus 10 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Morrow v. Hallmark Cards, Inc. (73 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. 173 of these were attributed to Ahuja 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
2008	Morrow v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.· Concurrence†	273 S.W.3d 15	73
2009	White v. White· Concurrence†	293 S.W.3d 1	46
2011	State Ex Rel. KCP & L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook	353 S.W.3d 14	35
2008	Rainey v. SSPS, INC.†	259 S.W.3d 603	31
2011	Molder v. MISSOURI STATE TREASURER†	342 S.W.3d 406	30
2009	State v. D.W.N.· Dissent†	290 S.W.3d 814	30
2009	State Ex Rel. Nixon v. Hughes	281 S.W.3d 902	23
2015	Milton Young v. Boone Electric Cooperative· Concurrence†	462 S.W.3d 783	22
2008	Moreland v. Division of Employment Security†	273 S.W.3d 39	22
2011	State v. Williams†	334 S.W.3d 177	20
2009	Atkinson v. Corson	289 S.W.3d 269	20
2009	Arch Insurance Co. v. Progressive Casualty Insurance Co.	294 S.W.3d 520	19
2009	Hammack v. Coffelt Land Title, Inc.· Concurrence†	284 S.W.3d 175	19
2012	Coble v. NCI Building Systems, Inc.†	378 S.W.3d 443	17
2011	Kelly v. Kelly†	340 S.W.3d 673	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 370 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 Missouri Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Alok Ahuja on?: Alok Ahuja is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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