How do judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1978 / Served to 1979

Joseph J. Simeone

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Joseph J. Simeone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1978. He previously served on the Missouri Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1978–1979 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–
1978	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

Saint Louis University
Quincy University

Judicial Record

In our data, Simeone authored 225 published opinions for the court (1972–1990), plus 2 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Conrad v. Bowers (100 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. 64 of these were attributed to Simeone 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
1975	Conrad v. Bowers	533 S.W.2d 614	100
1979	State Ex Rel. Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children v. Gaertner· Concurrence†	583 S.W.2d 107	89
1978	Shapiro v. Columbia Union National Bank & Trust Co.· Concurrence†	576 S.W.2d 310	85
1979	State Ex Rel. Allen v. Barker	581 S.W.2d 818	76
1978	McMahon v. State	569 S.W.2d 753	67
1989	Echele v. Echele	782 S.W.2d 430	65
1979	Cobb v. State Security Insurance Co.	576 S.W.2d 726	61
1978	Graeff Ex Rel. Graeff v. Baptist Temple of Springfield	576 S.W.2d 291	61
1979	State Ex Rel. Fort Zumwalt School District v. Dickherber	576 S.W.2d 532	57
1972	Martinelli v. Security Insurance Co. of New Haven	490 S.W.2d 427	57
1975	State v. Rutledge	524 S.W.2d 449	55
1973	Aluma Kraft Manufacturing Co. v. Elmer Fox & Co.	493 S.W.2d 378	55
1973	Hall v. State	496 S.W.2d 300	54
1977	Breece v. Jett	556 S.W.2d 696	53
1975	State v. Holliman· Concurrence†	529 S.W.2d 932	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Joseph J. Simeone on?: Joseph J. Simeone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).