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 1988 / Served to 1994

Gary Fenner

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Gary Fenner was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–1994 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Fenner authored 370 published opinions for the court (1986–1995), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: L.B. v. State Committee of Psychologists (52 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. 283 of these were attributed to Fenner 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
1995	L.B. v. State Committee of Psychologists	912 S.W.2d 611	52
1993	State v. Hill†	865 S.W.2d 702	45
1994	Whitworth v. Whitworth†	878 S.W.2d 479	43
1991	Ernst v. Ford Motor Co.	813 S.W.2d 910	40
1989	Jim Carlson Construction, Inc. v. Bailey†	769 S.W.2d 480	39
1994	Burkhart v. Burkhart†	876 S.W.2d 675	37
1991	Kimber v. Director of Revenue	817 S.W.2d 627	36
1991	State v. Green	812 S.W.2d 779	36
1989	Hord v. Morgan	769 S.W.2d 443	35
1988	Gilbert v. K.T.I., Inc.	765 S.W.2d 289	35
1989	Kansas City v. W.R. Grace & Co.	778 S.W.2d 264	33
1994	Kovacs v. Kovacs· Concurrence†	869 S.W.2d 789	31
1993	Oldaker v. Peters†	869 S.W.2d 94	31
1991	State v. Hamilton	817 S.W.2d 8	30
1994	State v. Tivis	884 S.W.2d 28	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 380 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 Gary Fenner on?: Gary Fenner 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).