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 2002 / Active

Richard B. Teitelman

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Richard B. Teitelman is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, serving since 2002. He previously served on the Missouri Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–
2002	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Teitelman authored 253 published opinions for the court (1998–2016), plus 60 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection (679 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. 153 of these were attributed to Teitelman 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
2003	Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection	121 S.W.3d 220	679
2003	State v. Edwards· Concurrence†	116 S.W.3d 511	232
2010	Keveney v. Missouri Military Academy	304 S.W.3d 98	221
2004	In the Interest of K.A.W.†	133 S.W.3d 1	214
2007	Hess v. Chase Manhattan Bank, USA, N.A.· Concurrence†	220 S.W.3d 758	163
2009	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	284 S.W.3d 561	156
2016	State of Missouri v. Blaec James Lammers· Dissent†	479 S.W.3d 624	141
2006	Dhyne v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	188 S.W.3d 454	121
2010	State v. Bateman· Dissent†	318 S.W.3d 681	120
2005	Williams v. State	168 S.W.3d 433	117
2005	Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Family Services v. T.H.· Concurrence†	160 S.W.3d 355	108
2014	Carla Baker v. Bristol Care, Inc., d/b/a Bristol Manor, and David Furnell	450 S.W.3d 770	106
2006	Tisius v. State	183 S.W.3d 207	101
2009	Gehrke v. State· Dissent†	280 S.W.3d 54	91
2016	Curt Peters and Cheri Peters v. Wady Industries, Inc., and Patrick Terrio· Dissent†	489 S.W.3d 784	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 333 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 Richard B. Teitelman on?: Richard B. Teitelman is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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24 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).