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 1992 / Served to 1999

Phillip Garrison

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Phillip Garrison was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1999 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Garrison authored 500 published opinions for the court (1993–2007), plus 11 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In Interest of MH (51 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. 162 of these were attributed to Garrison 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
1993	In Interest of MH	859 S.W.2d 888	51
1999	Carroll v. AAA Bail Bonds	6 S.W.3d 215	37
1995	In Re Marriage of Jennings	910 S.W.2d 760	35
1995	Slankard v. Thomas	912 S.W.2d 619	35
1993	State v. Reichert	854 S.W.2d 584	35
1994	In Re Marriage of Patroske	888 S.W.2d 374	34
1996	Walker v. Walker	936 S.W.2d 244	33
2005	Buchholz v. Buchholz	166 S.W.3d 146	30
2007	State v. Wright	216 S.W.3d 196	29
2003	Jansen v. Westrich	95 S.W.3d 214	29
2006	State v. Blakey	203 S.W.3d 806	28
2006	Scrivener Oil Co. v. Division of Employment Security	184 S.W.3d 635	28
2004	State v. Taylor	123 S.W.3d 924	28
2000	State v. Immekus	28 S.W.3d 421	28
1995	Jordan v. Stallings	911 S.W.2d 653	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 516 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 Phillip Garrison on?: Phillip Garrison was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).