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 1980 / Served to 1986

Donald Barnes

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Donald Barnes was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1986 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnes authored 17 published opinions for the court (1919–2009). Most cited: Schroer v. Brooks (27 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. 4 of these were attributed to Barnes 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
1920	Schroer v. Brooks	224 S.W. 53	27
1920	Stoltman v. City of Clayton	226 S.W. 315	13
2006	Bowers v. Hiland Dairy Co.	188 S.W.3d 79	10
1984	Thole v. Westfall†	682 S.W.2d 33	10
2008	State v. Miller	250 S.W.3d 736	8
1920	Barthels v. Garrels	227 S.W. 910	8
2009	State Ex Rel. Koster v. Allen	298 S.W.3d 139	6
1920	Colliseum Athletic Assn. v. Dillon	223 S.W. 955	5
1920	Wright v. Metropolitan Life Insurance	221 S.W. 383	5
1984	State v. Sneed†	676 S.W.2d 301	4
1920	Central Nat. Bank v. Jewelry Co.	220 S.W. 511	3
1920	Hoffman v. Hiram Lloyd Building & Construction Co.	223 S.W. 813	2
1980	Zink v. Hile†	594 S.W.2d 344	1
1920	Dempsey v. McGinnis	219 S.W. 148	1
1919	Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance v. Lusk	223 S.W. 804	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 17 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 was Donald Barnes on?: Donald Barnes was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).