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 2011 / Active

Robert M. Clayton III

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert M. Clayton III is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Judicial Record

In our data, Clayton authored 78 published opinions for the court (2011–2021). Most cited: In the INTEREST OF: J.T., Minor (29 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2014	In the INTEREST OF: J.T., Minor	447 S.W.3d 212	29
2019	Benny L. Bell v. Hamid R. Redjal, M.D., and Orthopaedic Associates of Southeast Missouri, P.C. d/b/a Advanced Orthopedic Specialists	569 S.W.3d 70	21
2016	State of Missouri v. David E. Smith	491 S.W.3d 286	18
2016	State of Missouri v. Jason C. Voss	488 S.W.3d 97	17
2014	Thomas A. McDaniel v. State of Missouri	460 S.W.3d 18	12
2016	Lonnie Snelling v. Patrick J. Kenny	491 S.W.3d 606	11
2014	Sherry L. Huelskamp v. Patients First Health Care, LLC	475 S.W.3d 162	11
2015	Betty Pisoni v. Steak 'N Shake Operations, Inc.	468 S.W.3d 922	10
2015	Jamie Lee Kropf v. Mathew Adam Jones	489 S.W.3d 830	10
2015	Gwendolyn Medley v. Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc.	460 S.W.3d 490	10
2015	Thomas E. Howard, Jr., Janice K. Howard and Howard Investments, LLC v. The Frost National Bank and TD Ameritrade, Inc.	458 S.W.3d 849	10
2016	Nationwide Insurance Company of America v. Patrice Thomas	487 S.W.3d 9	9
2015	Mary Simmons v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc.	479 S.W.3d 671	9
2015	Clyde Woodall v. Christian Hospital NE-NW	473 S.W.3d 649	9
2014	Aminadab Johnson v. State of Missouri	446 S.W.3d 274	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 78 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 is Robert M. Clayton III on?: Robert M. Clayton III is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).