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 1998 / Served to 2010

Robert Ulrich

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert Ulrich was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2010 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Ulrich authored 355 published opinions for the court (1989–2008), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Letz v. Turbomeca Engine Corp. (86 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. 278 of these were attributed to Ulrich 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
1998	Letz v. Turbomeca Engine Corp.†	975 S.W.2d 155	86
2008	Smith v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.†	275 S.W.3d 748	66
1998	Zipper v. Health Midwest†	978 S.W.2d 398	66
2006	Alberswerth v. Alberswerth†	184 S.W.3d 81	56
2000	Missouri National Education Ass'n v. Missouri State Board of Education†	34 S.W.3d 266	56
2006	Peters v. General Motors Corp.†	200 S.W.3d 1	50
2000	Juvenile Officer v. R.H.†	9 S.W.3d 56	49
1990	Continental Casualty Co. v. Maxwell	799 S.W.2d 882	47
1999	Armstrong v. Elmore	990 S.W.2d 62	46
1998	Juvenile Officer v. R.D.K.†	982 S.W.2d 803	44
1997	Brennan Ex Rel. Brennan v. Curators of the University of Missouri	942 S.W.2d 432	40
2003	McClelland v. Hogan Personnel, LLC†	116 S.W.3d 660	39
2002	Armstrong Business Services, Inc. v. H & R Block†	96 S.W.3d 867	38
1990	West v. Jacobs	790 S.W.2d 475	37
1997	McMaster v. Lohman	941 S.W.2d 813	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 356 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 Robert Ulrich on?: Robert Ulrich was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).