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 1995 / Active

Mary Kathryn Hoff

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Mary Kathryn Hoff is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoff authored 457 published opinions for the court (1996–2021), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Phillips v. Clean-Tech (164 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. 127 of these were attributed to Hoff 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
2000	Phillips v. Clean-Tech	34 S.W.3d 854	164
1998	Wood v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America	980 S.W.2d 43	67
1999	Shochet v. Allen	987 S.W.2d 516	57
2000	Coyne v. Coyne	17 S.W.3d 904	54
2003	State v. Presberry	128 S.W.3d 80	47
2008	Ullrich v. Cadco, Inc.	244 S.W.3d 772	37
2004	State v. Johnson	150 S.W.3d 132	37
1997	American Family Mutual Insurance v. Copeland-Williams	941 S.W.2d 625	37
2016	In the INTEREST OF K.M.A.-B.· Concurrence†	493 S.W.3d 457	33
2000	Fairbanks v. Weitzman	13 S.W.3d 313	31
1998	Cook v. Polineni	967 S.W.2d 687	30
1996	Bullard v. Bullard	929 S.W.2d 942	26
1999	Lavalle v. Lavalle	11 S.W.3d 640	25
1996	Smith v. Taylor-Morley, Inc.	929 S.W.2d 918	25
1999	Williams v. DePaul Health Center	996 S.W.2d 619	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 461 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 Mary Kathryn Hoff on?: Mary Kathryn Hoff is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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30 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).