How do judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 2012 / Active

Paul C. Wilson

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Paul C. Wilson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

Drury University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 124 published opinions for the court (2013–2025), plus 15 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Charles K. Moore v. State of Missouri (244 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. 66 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
2015	Charles K. Moore v. State of Missouri· Dissent†	458 S.W.3d 822	244
2014	Price v. State†	422 S.W.3d 292	133
2014	State of Missouri v. Bruce Pierce	433 S.W.3d 390	130
2014	Carla Baker v. Bristol Care, Inc., d/b/a Bristol Manor, and David Furnell· Concurrence†	450 S.W.3d 770	106
2016	Curt Peters and Cheri Peters v. Wady Industries, Inc., and Patrick Terrio· Concurrence†	489 S.W.3d 784	82
2017	Care & Treatment of Kirk v. State†	520 S.W.3d 443	81
2015	State ex rel. Todd Hewitt, Relator v. Honorable Kristine Kerr, Judge, Circuit Court for St. Louis County, Missouri· Dissent†	461 S.W.3d 798	81
2014	Mark D. Vogl v. State of Missouri· Dissent†	437 S.W.3d 218	76
2019	R.M.A. (a Minor Child), by his Next Friend: Rachelle Appleberry v. Blue Springs R-IV School District and Blue Springs School District Board of Education	568 S.W.3d 420	70
2014	Rafael Lozano v. BNSF Railway Company	421 S.W.3d 448	69
2013	State v. Nathan†	404 S.W.3d 253	68
2016	State of Missouri v. Chadwick Leland Walter· Dissent†	479 S.W.3d 118	62
2013	State v. Hart†	404 S.W.3d 232	62
2015	State of Missouri v. Thomas A. Ess· Concurrence†	453 S.W.3d 196	61
2014	State of Missouri v. Denford Jackson	433 S.W.3d 424	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Paul C. Wilson on?: Paul C. Wilson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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13 years on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).