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 2008 / Active

Don E. Burrell

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Don E. Burrell is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Judicial Record

In our data, Burrell authored 471 published opinions for the court (2008–2025), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Scrivener Oil Co., Inc. v. Crider (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. 161 of these were attributed to Burrell 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
2010	Scrivener Oil Co., Inc. v. Crider	304 S.W.3d 261	26
2010	Rogers v. Hester Ex Rel. Mills	334 S.W.3d 528	25
2008	In Re Marriage of Wood	262 S.W.3d 267	20
2008	Kells v. Missouri Mountain Properties, Inc.	247 S.W.3d 79	20
2010	Atkins v. Jester	309 S.W.3d 418	19
2010	Pool v. Farm Bureau Town & Country Insurance Co.	311 S.W.3d 895	19
2014	CHARLES HENRY STROH v. KELLY ANN STROH, Respondent-Respondent.	454 S.W.3d 351	18
2012	Intermed Insurance Co. v. Hill†	367 S.W.3d 84	18
2011	State v. Hitchcock	329 S.W.3d 741	17
2008	Arrington v. Goodrich Quality Theaters, Inc.	266 S.W.3d 856	17
2015	Empire District Electric Co. v. Coverdell†	484 S.W.3d 1	16
2011	State v. Dickson	337 S.W.3d 733	16
2010	T.R.W. v. Greene County Juvenile Office†	317 S.W.3d 167	16
2010	State v. Goins	306 S.W.3d 639	16
2012	State v. Cole†	384 S.W.3d 318	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 476 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 Don E. Burrell on?: Don E. Burrell 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).