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 1994 / Active

Robert G. Dowd

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert G. Dowd is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Quincy University
Mount St Mary's University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dowd authored 1,319 published opinions for the court (1969–2025), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Powers (140 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. 366 of these were attributed to Dowd 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
1975	In Re the Marriage of Powers	527 S.W.2d 949	140
2009	Alhalabi v. Missouri Department of Natural Resources	300 S.W.3d 518	79
1986	State v. Clark	711 S.W.2d 928	72
2015	John Childers v. State of Missouri	462 S.W.3d 825	58
1999	Hatch v. V.P. Fair Foundation, Inc.	990 S.W.2d 126	53
1990	State v. Hamilton	791 S.W.2d 789	48
1986	Klein v. General Electric Co.	714 S.W.2d 896	48
2003	State v. Presberry· Dissent†	128 S.W.3d 80	47
1975	Johnson v. Johnson	526 S.W.2d 33	46
2009	Carlisle v. Rainbow Connection, Inc.	300 S.W.3d 583	45
2000	Coggins v. Laclede Gas Co.	37 S.W.3d 335	45
1998	Superior Equipment Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	986 S.W.2d 477	45
1980	State v. Puckett	611 S.W.2d 242	44
1987	Hogrebe v. Hogrebe	727 S.W.2d 193	43
1970	Reese v. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company	457 S.W.2d 205	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,334 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 G. Dowd on?: Robert G. Dowd is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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32 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).