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 1985

Joseph G. Stewart

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

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

Tenure: 1974–1985 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 208 published opinions for the court (1974–1985), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Winters v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. (68 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. 131 of these were attributed to Stewart 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
1977	Winters v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.	554 S.W.2d 565	68
1978	State v. Cheesebrew	575 S.W.2d 218	53
1980	Jenni v. Gamel	602 S.W.2d 696	42
1975	Marriage of V. M. v. L. M.†	526 S.W.2d 947	40
1982	Gramlich v. Travelers Insurance Co.	640 S.W.2d 180	39
1976	Seelig v. Seelig	540 S.W.2d 142	38
1979	State v. Reed· Dissent†	583 S.W.2d 531	37
1976	Dix v. Motor Market, Inc.· Dissent†	540 S.W.2d 927	37
1979	State v. Neal	591 S.W.2d 178	35
1976	In Re the Marriage of Heddy	535 S.W.2d 276	35
1976	State v. Harris	534 S.W.2d 516	34
1977	Webb v. St. Louis County National Bank	551 S.W.2d 869	33
1977	State v. Hamell	561 S.W.2d 357	32
1977	Anspach v. Anspach	557 S.W.2d 3	32
1980	State v. Ivory	609 S.W.2d 217	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 Joseph G. Stewart on?: Joseph G. Stewart was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).