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 1995 / Served to 2007

Ronnie Lee White

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Ronnie Lee White was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1995. He earned a law degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: 1995–2007 · 11 yrs
Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City

J.D.

1983

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 42 published opinions for the court (1996–2007), plus 33 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Chaney (291 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. 86 of these were attributed to White 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	State v. Chaney· Dissent†	967 S.W.2d 47	291
1996	State v. Taylor†	929 S.W.2d 209	168
2000	State Ex Rel. Nixon v. American Tobacco Co.†	34 S.W.3d 122	148
1996	State v. Kinder· Dissent†	942 S.W.2d 313	146
1997	White v. State· Concurrence†	939 S.W.2d 887	131
1996	Rodriguez v. Suzuki Motor Corp.· Dissent†	936 S.W.2d 104	123
1996	State v. Nunley†	923 S.W.2d 911	112
1999	Shahan v. Shahan· Dissent†	988 S.W.2d 529	108
2001	James v. Paul· Concurrence†	49 S.W.3d 678	98
2002	State v. Westfall†	75 S.W.3d 278	92
1996	State v. Smulls†	935 S.W.2d 9	92
1998	Seitz v. Lemay Bank and Trust Co.†	959 S.W.2d 458	91
2003	Cox v. Director of Revenue· Dissent†	98 S.W.3d 548	74
2001	Greenbriar Hills Country Club v. Director of Revenue†	47 S.W.3d 346	70
2001	State Ex Rel. Linthicum v. Calvin· Dissent†	57 S.W.3d 855	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 was Ronnie Lee White on?: Ronnie Lee White was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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11 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).