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 2006 / Served to 2010

Paul McGhee

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Paul McGhee was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2010 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McGhee authored 11 published opinions for the court (1965–2010), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Myers (21 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. 1 of these was attributed to McGhee 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
1999	State v. Myers	997 S.W.2d 26	21
2007	State v. Norris	237 S.W.3d 640	15
1965	Molumby v. Shapleigh Hardware Company	395 S.W.2d 221	14
2010	Pittman v. Ripley County Memorial Hospital	318 S.W.3d 289	10
1965	Mills v. Berry	395 S.W.2d 228	8
2006	Denney v. Winton	184 S.W.3d 110	7
2006	State v. Wallis	204 S.W.3d 732	5
2007	Nguyen v. Buffington	236 S.W.3d 704	3
2006	State v. MacE	203 S.W.3d 254	3
2010	Glass v. TRANSAMERICA LIFE INS. CO.	322 S.W.3d 556	1
2010	Adams v. King	312 S.W.3d 432	1
2006	Ozark Mountain Bank v. Johnson· Concurrence†	190 S.W.3d 469	1

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 McGhee on?: Paul McGhee was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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4 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).