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 / Served to 2004

Mary Russell

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Mary Russell was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2004 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Russell authored 193 published opinions for the court (1995–2004), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Howe v. ALD Services, Inc. (59 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. 77 of these were attributed to Russell 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
1997	Howe v. ALD Services, Inc.	941 S.W.2d 645	59
1998	A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. v. Drew	978 S.W.2d 386	58
1997	Landers v. Chrysler Corp.	963 S.W.2d 275	49
1997	Halupa v. Halupa	943 S.W.2d 272	47
2004	Malawey v. Malawey	137 S.W.3d 518	46
2003	Simmons v. State	100 S.W.3d 143	42
1997	Schott v. Beussink	950 S.W.2d 621	36
1999	Stalcup v. Orthotic & Prosthetic Lab, Inc.	989 S.W.2d 654	31
1996	Smith v. Kovac	927 S.W.2d 493	28
2004	Bowan Ex Rel. Bowan v. Express Medical Transporters, Inc.	135 S.W.3d 452	27
2000	Sutton v. Vee Jay Cement Contracting Co.	37 S.W.3d 803	27
1998	Morgan v. Ackerman	964 S.W.2d 865	27
2004	City of Sullivan v. Truckstop Restaurants, Inc.	142 S.W.3d 181	25
2004	State v. Warren	141 S.W.3d 478	25
1997	Bezayiff v. City of St. Louis	963 S.W.2d 225	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 196 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 was Mary Russell on?: Mary Russell was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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9 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).