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

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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1989 / Served to 2001

Ann K. Covington

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Ann K. Covington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1989–2001 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Covington authored 165 published opinions for the court (1989–2001), plus 13 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bernard (262 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. 72 of these were attributed to Covington 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
1993	State v. Bernard	849 S.W.2d 10	262
1992	State v. Parker	836 S.W.2d 930	259
1991	State v. Feltrop	803 S.W.2d 1	245
1991	Luleff v. State	807 S.W.2d 495	243
1998	State v. Rousan	961 S.W.2d 831	239
1990	State v. McMillin	783 S.W.2d 82	215
1991	Sanders v. State	807 S.W.2d 493	214
1994	State v. Wise	879 S.W.2d 494	179
1989	State v. Hornbuckle	769 S.W.2d 89	178
2000	Lopez v. Three Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.	26 S.W.3d 151	155
1989	Sidebottom v. State	781 S.W.2d 791	153
1991	Mehra v. Mehra· Concurrence†	819 S.W.2d 351	143
1996	State v. Richardson	923 S.W.2d 301	139
1995	State v. Driver	912 S.W.2d 52	135
1997	State v. Brooks	960 S.W.2d 479	131

Showing the 15 most-cited of 195 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 Ann K. Covington on?: Ann K. Covington was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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12 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).