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 2012 / Active

Lisa Van Amburg

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Lisa Van Amburg is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Amburg authored 101 published opinions for the court (2013–2018), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Daniel Murphy, Individually and On Behalf of Others Similarly Situated in Missouri v. Stonewall Kitchen, LLC, Defendant/Respondent. (46 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. 67 of these were attributed to Amburg 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
2016	Daniel Murphy, Individually and On Behalf of Others Similarly Situated in Missouri v. Stonewall Kitchen, LLC, Defendant/Respondent.†	503 S.W.3d 308	46
2015	Kathryn Jimenez, Petitioner/Respondent v. Cintas Corporation	475 S.W.3d 679	34
2013	State v. Patton†	419 S.W.3d 125	26
2018	Unifund CCR Partners v. Myers†	563 S.W.3d 740	23
2014	State v. Murray†	428 S.W.3d 705	23
2013	Brittany Sobery Family Ltd. Partnership v. Coinmach Corp.†	392 S.W.3d 46	20
2013	Holzhausen v. Holzhausen· Dissent†	414 S.W.3d 488	17
2015	State of Missouri v. James W. Lewis· Dissent†	466 S.W.3d 629	16
2014	Jefferson ex rel. Jefferson v. Missouri Baptist Medical Center†	447 S.W.3d 701	16
2018	Payne v. Cunningham†	549 S.W.3d 43	15
2017	Doe v. St. Louis Community College· Dissent†	526 S.W.3d 329	15
2013	State v. Drisdel†	417 S.W.3d 773	15
2013	Nichols v. State†	409 S.W.3d 566	15
2017	State v. Rogers†	529 S.W.3d 906	14
2016	M.N.M., Petitioner/Respondent v. S.R.B.†	499 S.W.3d 383	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Lisa Van Amburg on?: Lisa Van Amburg is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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14 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).