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 1974 / Served to 1997

James Reinhard

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

James Reinhard was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1997 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reinhard authored 1,297 published opinions for the court (1974–1997), plus 9 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Richardson v. State (215 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. 986 of these were attributed to Reinhard 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
1986	Richardson v. State	719 S.W.2d 912	215
1987	Armour v. State	741 S.W.2d 683	79
1987	Thomas v. State	736 S.W.2d 518	64
1978	Edwards v. Heidelbaugh	574 S.W.2d 25	64
1982	Bull v. Bull	634 S.W.2d 228	49
1984	State v. Kerfoot	675 S.W.2d 658	44
1984	General Aggregate Corp. v. LaBrayere	666 S.W.2d 901	38
1984	Black Leaf Products Co. v. Chemsico, Inc.	678 S.W.2d 827	37
1986	Schiles Ex Rel. Schiles v. Schaefer	710 S.W.2d 254	36
1983	Eugene Alper Construction Co. v. Joe Garavelli's of West Port, Inc.	655 S.W.2d 132	36
1983	Best v. Schoemehl	652 S.W.2d 740	34
1992	H.W.S. v. C.T.†	827 S.W.2d 237	33
1986	Boatmen's Bank of Jefferson County v. Community Interiors, Inc.	721 S.W.2d 72	33
1984	Leigh v. State	673 S.W.2d 788	33
1989	Brummell v. State	770 S.W.2d 379	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,310 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 Reinhard on?: James Reinhard was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).