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 2007 / Active

Kurt S. Odenwald

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Kurt S. Odenwald is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Odenwald authored 813 published opinions for the court (2001–2024), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Trans States Airlines, Inc. (96 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. 186 of these were attributed to Odenwald 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
2009	Williams v. Trans States Airlines, Inc.	281 S.W.3d 854	96
2017	Scott v. King†	510 S.W.3d 887	80
2010	Kunzie v. Jack-In-The-Box, Inc.	330 S.W.3d 476	54
2010	State v. Greenlee	327 S.W.3d 602	46
2010	Doe v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis	311 S.W.3d 818	45
2010	Hurst v. State	301 S.W.3d 112	44
2011	Katz v. ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC.	347 S.W.3d 533	42
2010	State v. Gibbs	306 S.W.3d 178	39
2012	Glenn v. HEALTHLINK HMO, INC.	360 S.W.3d 866	38
2009	State v. Edwards†	280 S.W.3d 184	38
2015	Tucker v. State†	468 S.W.3d 468	36
2015	Kathryn Jimenez, Petitioner/Respondent v. Cintas Corporation· Concurrence†	475 S.W.3d 679	34
2014	State v. Howery†	427 S.W.3d 236	34
2009	Workman v. Workman	293 S.W.3d 89	34
2015	State v. Myles†	479 S.W.3d 649	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 825 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 is Kurt S. Odenwald on?: Kurt S. Odenwald is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).