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 1995 / Served to 2007

Edwin H. Smith

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Edwin H. Smith was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2007 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 325 published opinions for the court (1994–2007), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Nelson v. Nelson (86 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. 315 of these were attributed to Smith 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
2000	Nelson v. Nelson†	25 S.W.3d 511	86
2000	Juvenile Officer v. L.L.J.†	24 S.W.3d 771	82
2000	State v. Dowell†	25 S.W.3d 594	70
1999	State v. Scurlock†	998 S.W.2d 578	69
2001	State v. Dudley†	51 S.W.3d 44	64
1999	Wright v. Wright†	1 S.W.3d 52	64
2000	State v. Williams†	24 S.W.3d 101	59
1999	State v. Williams†	9 S.W.3d 3	53
2002	Cohen v. Cohen†	73 S.W.3d 39	52
2001	Helterbrand v. Five Star Mobile Home Sales, Inc.†	48 S.W.3d 649	52
2003	Loumiet v. Loumiet†	103 S.W.3d 332	51
2000	Wilson v. Carnahan†	25 S.W.3d 664	51
2005	State v. Mickle	164 S.W.3d 33	50
2006	Scott v. Blue Springs Ford Sales, Inc.†	215 S.W.3d 145	49
2004	Boyd v. Boyd†	134 S.W.3d 820	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 329 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 Edwin H. Smith on?: Edwin H. Smith was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).