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 2012 / Active

Angela Turner Quigless

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Angela Turner Quigless is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Quigless authored 169 published opinions for the court (2012–2025), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Hamilton v. Archer (26 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. 76 of these were attributed to Quigless 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
2018	Hamilton v. Archer†	545 S.W.3d 377	26
2013	State v. Ray†	407 S.W.3d 162	20
2013	Lynn v. State†	417 S.W.3d 789	19
2018	State v. Armstrong†	560 S.W.3d 563	17
2017	Jones v. State†	514 S.W.3d 72	17
2013	Merseal v. Farm Bureau Town & Country Insurance Co. of Missouri†	396 S.W.3d 467	17
2017	Doe v. St. Louis Community College†	526 S.W.3d 329	15
2014	Maness v. City of De Soto†	421 S.W.3d 532	15
2013	White v. City of Ladue†	422 S.W.3d 439	15
2014	Drury Co. v. Missouri United School Insurance Counsel†	455 S.W.3d 30	14
2013	E.A.B. v. C.G.W.†	415 S.W.3d 795	14
2016	Arkansas-Missouri Forest Products, LLC v. Stuart J. Lerner, Defendants/Respondents.	486 S.W.3d 438	13
2015	State of Missouri v. David Bennish	479 S.W.3d 678	13
2013	Edwards v. Black Twig Marketing & Communications LLC†	418 S.W.3d 512	13
2013	Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Wilson†	409 S.W.3d 490	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 170 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 Angela Turner Quigless on?: Angela Turner Quigless is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).