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 1950 / Served to 1964

Frank Hollingsworth

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Frank Hollingsworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1950–1964 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hollingsworth authored 246 published opinions for the court (1950–1964), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad (127 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. 68 of these were attributed to Hollingsworth 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
1953	Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad	260 S.W.2d 496	127
1952	Dempsey v. Thompson	251 S.W.2d 42	90
1955	Franklin v. Franklin	283 S.W.2d 483	84
1951	Lilly v. Boswell	242 S.W.2d 73	77
1959	Brawner v. Brawner· Dissent†	327 S.W.2d 808	63
1958	State v. Edwards	317 S.W.2d 441	62
1963	Morrow v. Caloric Appliance Corporation	372 S.W.2d 41	61
1954	State Ex Inf. Dalton v. Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority	270 S.W.2d 44	58
1951	Osborne v. Purdome	244 S.W.2d 1005	58
1956	State v. Groves	295 S.W.2d 169	57
1962	Probst Ex Rel. Probst v. Seyer	353 S.W.2d 798	55
1954	Moore v. Middlewest Freightways, Inc.	266 S.W.2d 578	53
1955	State v. Kemp	283 S.W.2d 502	52
1958	State Ex Rel. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Public Service Commission	312 S.W.2d 791	48
1961	Winterton v. Van Zandt	351 S.W.2d 696	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 255 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 Frank Hollingsworth on?: Frank Hollingsworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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14 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).