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 2010 / Active

James Edward Welsh

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

James Edward Welsh is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Welsh authored 234 published opinions for the court (2010–2018), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wallace v. Frazier (53 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. 161 of these were attributed to Welsh 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
2018	Wallace v. Frazier†	546 S.W.3d 624	53
2011	State Ex Rel. KCP & L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook· Dissent†	353 S.W.3d 14	35
2013	Payne v. Markeson†	414 S.W.3d 530	24
2012	State v. Woods†	357 S.W.3d 249	24
2016	Tracy L. Reed v. The Kansas City Missouri School District†	504 S.W.3d 235	23
2012	Johnson v. Medtronic, Inc.†	365 S.W.3d 226	23
2011	State v. Clinch†	335 S.W.3d 579	23
2012	State v. Edwards†	365 S.W.3d 240	21
2014	Advantage Buildings & Exteriors, Inc. v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co.†	449 S.W.3d 16	19
2016	Ellen L. Nicol v. David L. Nicol	491 S.W.3d 266	17
2014	State of Missouri v. Jose F. Flores	437 S.W.3d 779	17
2012	Querry v. Querry†	382 S.W.3d 922	17
2011	Blumer v. Automobile Club Inter-Insurance Exchange†	340 S.W.3d 214	17
2010	Stanton v. Division of Employment Security†	321 S.W.3d 486	17
2016	Dennis Fastnacht and Joni Fastnacht v. Teng Ge	488 S.W.3d 178	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 James Edward Welsh on?: James Edward Welsh is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).