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 1990 / Served to 2009

John Parrish

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

John Parrish was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2009 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Parrish authored 757 published opinions for the court (1983–2009), plus 14 dissents and 54 concurrences. Most cited: Bentlage v. Springgate (49 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. 469 of these were attributed to Parrish 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
1990	Bentlage v. Springgate	793 S.W.2d 228	49
1992	Ibrahim v. Ibrahim	825 S.W.2d 391	46
2006	Atkins v. McPhetridge	213 S.W.3d 116	38
1999	Hocker Oil Co. v. Barker-Phillips-Jackson, Inc.	997 S.W.2d 510	38
1990	Eagleburger v. Emerson Electric Co.· Concurrence†	794 S.W.2d 210	36
2003	Daniel v. Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.	103 S.W.3d 302	33
1996	State v. Wright	934 S.W.2d 575	31
1994	In Interest of SJG	871 S.W.2d 638	30
2005	Jerry Bennett Masonry, Inc. v. Crossland Const. Co., Inc.· Concurrence†	171 S.W.3d 81	29
1996	Gage v. Morse· Dissent†	933 S.W.2d 410	29
1991	Woodburn v. May Distributing Co., Inc.	815 S.W.2d 477	29
2001	In Interest of M.J. v. Greene County Juvenile Office	66 S.W.3d 745	28
2000	Jantz v. Brewer· Concurrence†	30 S.W.3d 915	28
1997	Lashmet v. McQueary· Concurrence†	954 S.W.2d 546	28
1997	Francka v. Francka	951 S.W.2d 685	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 826 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 John Parrish on?: John Parrish was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).