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 1976 / Served to 1982

James Moore

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

James Moore was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1976–1982 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 11 published opinions for the court (1976–1984). Most cited: Fields v. Fields (30 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. 8 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1982	Fields v. Fields	643 S.W.2d 611	30
1978	State v. Lowery†	565 S.W.2d 680	19
1984	Atwood v. Atwood	664 S.W.2d 673	16
1979	State v. McMahan	583 S.W.2d 540	9
1977	Camillo v. State†	555 S.W.2d 386	9
1976	Floyd v. Brenner†	542 S.W.2d 325	6
1979	State v. Johnson†	579 S.W.2d 771	5
1977	State ex rel. Buchanan County v. Roach†	548 S.W.2d 206	4
1982	Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. v. Dilbeck†	637 S.W.2d 363	3
1978	Lanphear v. State†	574 S.W.2d 40	2
1982	State v. Moss†	637 S.W.2d 350	0

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 James Moore on?: James Moore 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).