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 1963 / Served to 1977

Lawrence Holman

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Lawrence Holman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1907 · age 119
Tenure: 1963–1977 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holman authored 282 published opinions for the court (1951–1976), plus 19 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Degraffenreid (243 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. 126 of these were attributed to Holman 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
1972	State v. Degraffenreid· Dissent†	477 S.W.2d 57	243
1974	Smith v. State	513 S.W.2d 407	175
1972	State v. Cuckovich	485 S.W.2d 16	165
1974	State v. Yowell	513 S.W.2d 397	100
1975	State v. Kraus	530 S.W.2d 684	98
1970	Boten v. Brecklein	452 S.W.2d 86	88
1972	In Re Estate of LaGarce	487 S.W.2d 493	87
1976	Teefey v. Teefey	533 S.W.2d 563	86
1976	State Ex Rel. Stanhope v. Pratt	533 S.W.2d 567	71
1970	State v. Blackwell· Concurrence†	459 S.W.2d 268	68
1969	State Ex Rel. Schweitzer v. Greene	438 S.W.2d 229	68
1968	State v. Glenn	429 S.W.2d 225	68
1972	State v. Pruitt	479 S.W.2d 785	67
1970	State v. Witherspoon· Concurrence†	460 S.W.2d 281	67
1976	BD. OF ED., MT. VERNON SCHOOLS, ETC. v. Shank	542 S.W.2d 779	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 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 Lawrence Holman on?: Lawrence Holman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

14 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).