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 2001 / Active

Lisa White Hardwick

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Lisa White Hardwick is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hardwick authored 512 published opinions for the court (2001–2025), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Robinson v. Hooker (49 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. 310 of these were attributed to Hardwick 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
2010	Robinson v. Hooker†	323 S.W.3d 418	49
2004	McCormack v. Capital Electric Construction Co.†	159 S.W.3d 387	43
2004	Missouri Division of Family Services v. A.R.H.†	124 S.W.3d 63	40
2019	State of Missouri v. Joanthony Deaundre Johnson	576 S.W.3d 205	36
2014	Mary Lowe v. Susan Hill	430 S.W.3d 346	36
2001	Hatchette v. Hatchette†	57 S.W.3d 884	31
2002	Sonoma Management Co., Inc. v. Boessen†	70 S.W.3d 475	30
2008	Cures Without Cloning v. Pund†	259 S.W.3d 76	27
2005	Building Erection Services Co. v. Plastic Sales & Mfg. Co.†	163 S.W.3d 472	27
2013	Jordan v. Peet†	409 S.W.3d 553	26
2003	Rychnovsky v. Cole†	119 S.W.3d 204	26
2003	Langdon v. United Restaurants, Inc.†	105 S.W.3d 882	24
2011	FORSYTH FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC v. Hayes†	351 S.W.3d 738	23
2017	Moore v. Armed Forces Bank, N.A.†	534 S.W.3d 323	22
2005	Grewell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	162 S.W.3d 503	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 515 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 White Hardwick on?: Lisa White Hardwick is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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25 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).