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 1998 / Active

Lawrence E. Mooney

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Lawrence E. Mooney is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mooney authored 522 published opinions for the court (1998–2019), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Patrick Blanks v. Fluor Corporation (76 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. 163 of these were attributed to Mooney 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
2014	Patrick Blanks v. Fluor Corporation	450 S.W.3d 308	76
2004	Watters v. Travel Guard International	136 S.W.3d 100	59
1999	Pollock v. Wetterau Food Distribution Group	11 S.W.3d 754	59
2005	Boggs Ex Rel. Boggs v. Lay	164 S.W.3d 4	46
2007	State v. Davidson	242 S.W.3d 409	42
2003	Brown v. MOCAP, INC.	105 S.W.3d 854	42
2003	McAllister v. McAllister	101 S.W.3d 287	42
2004	Goede v. Aerojet General Corp.	143 S.W.3d 14	38
2002	Gunnett v. Girardier Building & Realty Co.	70 S.W.3d 632	38
2006	Columbia Mutual Insurance Co. v. Epstein	200 S.W.3d 547	37
2000	State v. Davis	32 S.W.3d 603	37
2003	Kinsky v. Steiger	109 S.W.3d 194	33
2013	DeWalt v. Davidson Service/Air, Inc.†	398 S.W.3d 491	32
2001	Freeman v. Leader National Insurance Co.	58 S.W.3d 590	32
1999	State v. Roe	6 S.W.3d 411	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 533 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 Lawrence E. Mooney on?: Lawrence E. Mooney is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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28 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).