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 1973 / Served to 1974

Paul Carver

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Paul Carver was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1974 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carver authored 8 published opinions for the court (1973–1974). Most cited: State v. Bibee (33 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. 4 of these were attributed to Carver 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
1973	State v. Bibee	496 S.W.2d 305	33
1974	State v. Barnes	517 S.W.2d 155	22
1973	Howard v. State	493 S.W.2d 14	22
1974	State v. Murphy	508 S.W.2d 269	16
1973	State v. McCullough†	493 S.W.2d 353	7
1974	McIntosh v. Frisinger†	507 S.W.2d 419	6
1973	State v. Scott†	492 S.W.2d 168	5
1973	State v. Massey†	492 S.W.2d 48	5

Showing the 8 most-cited of 8 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 Paul Carver on?: Paul Carver was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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1 year 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).