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 1981 / Active

Harold Lowenstein

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Harold Lowenstein is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1981 · 45 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lowenstein authored 1,060 published opinions for the court (1981–2009), plus 29 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Duke v. Gulf & Western Manufacturing Co. (79 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. 727 of these were attributed to Lowenstein 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	Duke v. Gulf & Western Manufacturing Co.	660 S.W.2d 404	79
2000	Koger v. Hartford Life Insurance Co.	28 S.W.3d 405	67
2008	Smith v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.	275 S.W.3d 748	66
1987	State v. Butler	731 S.W.2d 265	63
1986	Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. v. Occidental Fire & Casualty Co.	716 S.W.2d 348	58
1997	Barnett v. La Societe Anonyme Turbomeca France†	963 S.W.2d 639	56
1997	Burch Food Services, Inc. v. Missouri Division of Employment Security	945 S.W.2d 478	56
1983	Chmieleski v. City Products Corp.	660 S.W.2d 275	53
2006	Peters v. General Motors Corp.· Dissent†	200 S.W.3d 1	50
1997	Sokol v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission of Missouri· Dissent†	946 S.W.2d 20	49
1983	Citizens for Rural Preservation, Inc. v. Robinett	648 S.W.2d 117	49
2002	Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan v. Community Health Plan· Concurrence†	81 S.W.3d 34	47
1983	Moreno v. Juvenile Officer	647 S.W.2d 852	47
1984	Green Quarries, Inc. v. Raasch	676 S.W.2d 261	45
1996	Kitterman v. Simrall†	924 S.W.2d 872	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,106 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 is Harold Lowenstein on?: Harold Lowenstein is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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45 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).