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

Nancy Rahmeyer

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Nancy Rahmeyer 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 Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Rahmeyer authored 595 published opinions for the court (2001–2021), plus 21 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Major v. McCallister (35 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. 226 of these were attributed to Rahmeyer 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
2009	Major v. McCallister· Concurrence†	302 S.W.3d 227	35
2014	CARL E. SMITH and MARGARITA SMITH v. GREAT AMERICAN ASSURANCE COMPANY, GREGORY HERKERT, and THE STOLAR PARTERSHIP, LLP· Concurrence†	436 S.W.3d 700	34
2005	Buchholz v. Buchholz· Concurrence†	166 S.W.3d 146	30
2006	Holland v. Crow†	203 S.W.3d 295	29
2003	L.R.K v. Greene County Juvenile Office†	103 S.W.3d 319	29
2002	Murphy v. Jackson National Life Insurance Co.	83 S.W.3d 663	28
2001	In Interest of M.J. v. Greene County Juvenile Office· Dissent†	66 S.W.3d 745	28
2002	Sill v. Burlington Northern Railroad	87 S.W.3d 386	27
2002	In Re Marriage of Holden	81 S.W.3d 217	27
2001	Farley v. Farley· Concurrence†	51 S.W.3d 159	27
2006	Mullin v. Silvercreek Condominium, Owner's Ass'n	195 S.W.3d 484	26
2003	R.J.S. Security, Inc. v. Command Security Services, Inc.	101 S.W.3d 1	26
2007	Marriage of Basham v. Williams	239 S.W.3d 717	24
2003	S & J, INC. v. McLoud & Co., LLC	108 S.W.3d 765	22
2003	White v. Camden County Sheriff's Department	106 S.W.3d 626	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 644 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 Nancy Rahmeyer on?: Nancy Rahmeyer is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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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).