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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1982 / Served to 1985

George F. Gunn Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

George F. Gunn Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1998
Tenure: 1982–1985 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gunn authored 35 published opinions for the court (1982–1985), plus 7 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Gustafson v. Benda (268 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. 43 of these were attributed to Gunn 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
1983	Gustafson v. Benda· Dissent†	661 S.W.2d 11	268
1984	Zafft v. Eli Lilly & Co.· Dissent†	676 S.W.2d 241	197
1984	Hoffmann v. Hoffmann†	676 S.W.2d 817	177
1985	Collins v. Director of Revenue†	691 S.W.2d 246	157
1983	State v. Williams†	652 S.W.2d 102	150
1983	Bartley v. Special School District of St. Louis County†	649 S.W.2d 864	137
1984	Sanders v. Daniel International Corp.· Dissent†	682 S.W.2d 803	134
1984	Rustici v. Weidemeyer†	673 S.W.2d 762	126
1984	State v. Preston†	673 S.W.2d 1	125
1984	State v. Lynch†	679 S.W.2d 858	76
1983	State v. Betts†	646 S.W.2d 94	76
1984	Love v. State†	670 S.W.2d 499	73
1985	City of Cabool v. Missouri State Board of Mediation†	689 S.W.2d 51	70
1983	Brown Group, Inc. v. Administrative Hearing Commission†	649 S.W.2d 874	70
1983	Buechner v. Bond· Dissent†	650 S.W.2d 611	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 George F. Gunn Jr. on?: George F. Gunn Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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3 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).