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 1977 / Served to 1980

Donald Mason

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Donald Mason was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1980 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mason authored 12 published opinions for the court (1977–1980). Most cited: Grantham v. Rockhurst University (37 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. 6 of these were attributed to Mason 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
1978	Grantham v. Rockhurst University	563 S.W.2d 147	37
1979	Cave v. Cave†	593 S.W.2d 592	30
1977	Kreutz v. Wolff	560 S.W.2d 271	30
1978	In Re Estate of King	572 S.W.2d 200	26
1978	Godsy v. Godsy	565 S.W.2d 726	25
1980	Breeze v. Goldberg†	595 S.W.2d 381	23
1978	Tolen v. Missouri Department of Revenue	564 S.W.2d 601	22
1978	Helton v. Hake	564 S.W.2d 313	13
1978	State v. Sheets†	564 S.W.2d 623	4
1980	Byron J. Myers, Inc. v. Bradbury†	595 S.W.2d 724	3
1977	St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. Brug†	558 S.W.2d 375	3
1978	King v. Smith†	572 S.W.2d 200	1

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Mason on?: Donald Mason was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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3 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).