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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1969 / Served to 1982

June P. Morgan

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

June P. Morgan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–1998
Tenure: 1969–1982 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morgan authored 212 published opinions for the court (1969–1982), plus 26 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wiley (154 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. 121 of these were attributed to Morgan 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	State v. Wiley· Concurrence†	522 S.W.2d 281	154
1981	State v. Royal	610 S.W.2d 946	131
1979	Kieffer v. Kieffer	590 S.W.2d 915	128
1970	State Ex Rel. Deere and Company v. Pinnell	454 S.W.2d 889	125
1982	State v. Trimble	638 S.W.2d 726	117
1982	Kuchta v. Kuchta	636 S.W.2d 663	98
1972	Smith v. Old Warson Development Company	479 S.W.2d 795	94
1980	State v. Morgan	592 S.W.2d 796	93
1979	State Ex Rel. Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children v. Gaertner· Dissent†	583 S.W.2d 107	89
1982	State v. Garrett	627 S.W.2d 635	82
1981	Buchanan v. Kirkpatrick· Dissent†	615 S.W.2d 6	81
1982	State v. Stokes	638 S.W.2d 715	78
1975	Fohn v. Title Insurance Corp. of St. Louis	529 S.W.2d 1	72
1970	State v. Parker	458 S.W.2d 241	71
1972	State v. Granberry	484 S.W.2d 295	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 244 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 June P. Morgan on?: June P. Morgan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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13 years 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).