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 1975 / Served to 1984

Robert Welborn

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert Welborn was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–1984 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Welborn authored 240 published opinions for the court (1975–1984), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Craig v. Iowa Kemper Mutual Insurance Co. (50 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. 130 of these were attributed to Welborn 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
1978	Craig v. Iowa Kemper Mutual Insurance Co.	565 S.W.2d 716	50
1978	Rinker v. Ford Motor Co.	567 S.W.2d 655	48
1977	In Re the Marriage of Dickey	553 S.W.2d 538	39
1976	Davis v. Davis	544 S.W.2d 259	38
1978	National Starch and Chemical Corp. v. Newman	577 S.W.2d 99	37
1975	Gooch v. Spradling	523 S.W.2d 861	36
1977	Long v. Huffman	557 S.W.2d 911	34
1977	State Ex Rel. Mather v. Carnes	551 S.W.2d 272	33
1978	Golston v. Lincoln Cemetery, Inc.	573 S.W.2d 700	32
1976	State v. Moten	542 S.W.2d 317	31
1979	Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Shackelford	591 S.W.2d 210	30
1977	In Re the Marriage of Breen	560 S.W.2d 358	30
1976	Laswell v. Industrial Commission of Missouri, Division of Employment Security	534 S.W.2d 613	30
1977	Gould v. Starr	558 S.W.2d 755	28
1975	Kanady v. Kanady	527 S.W.2d 704	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 241 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 Welborn on?: Robert Welborn was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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9 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).