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 2009 / Active

Mark D. Pfeiffer

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Mark D. Pfeiffer is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Westminster College
University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Pfeiffer authored 373 published opinions for the court (2009–2025), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tisch v. DST Systems, Inc. (51 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. 170 of these were attributed to Pfeiffer 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
2012	Tisch v. DST Systems, Inc.†	368 S.W.3d 245	51
2016	Primitivo Soto v. Costco Wholesale Corp†	502 S.W.3d 38	50
2011	Long v. Shelter Insurance Companies†	351 S.W.3d 692	40
2014	Ericka J Sauvain, Amy Leigh Sauvain, by Next Friend, Ericka J Sauvain and Bonnie S Hughes v. Acceptance Indemnity Insurance Company	437 S.W.3d 296	30
2012	Fischer v. First American Title Insurance Co.†	388 S.W.3d 181	30
2009	State v. D.W.N.†	290 S.W.3d 814	30
2013	Stander v. Szabados†	407 S.W.3d 73	29
2010	Agnello v. Walker†	306 S.W.3d 666	28
2010	Binggeli v. Hammond†	300 S.W.3d 621	28
2013	Schollmeyer v. Schollmeyer†	393 S.W.3d 120	26
2010	West v. Sharp Bonding Agency, Inc.†	327 S.W.3d 7	25
2012	State v. Brown†	360 S.W.3d 919	24
2009	Bennartz v. City of Columbia· Concurrence†	300 S.W.3d 251	21
2014	Aundra Woods v. State of Missouri	458 S.W.3d 352	20
2011	CORNELIOUS v. State†	351 S.W.3d 36	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 377 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 Mark D. Pfeiffer on?: Mark D. Pfeiffer is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).