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 2006 / Active

Roy L. Richter

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Roy L. Richter is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Drury University
University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Richter authored 620 published opinions for the court (2006–2020), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Steve Hibbs v. Brian Berger (36 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. 94 of these were attributed to Richter 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
2014	Steve Hibbs v. Brian Berger	430 S.W.3d 296	36
2007	Schwalm v. Schwalm	217 S.W.3d 335	35
2013	Thorp v. Thorp†	390 S.W.3d 871	34
2011	Jennings v. SSM Health Care St. Louis†	355 S.W.3d 526	31
2012	Schubert v. Schubert	366 S.W.3d 55	30
2016	SKMDV Holdings, Inc. v. Green Jacobson, P.C.	494 S.W.3d 537	29
2008	Ahern v. P & H, LLC	254 S.W.3d 129	27
2013	State v. Sistrunk†	414 S.W.3d 592	25
2007	Goralnik v. United Fire & Casualty Co.	240 S.W.3d 203	24
2007	Vinson v. Vinson†	243 S.W.3d 418	22
2013	Greer v. State†	406 S.W.3d 100	21
2007	State v. Simmons	233 S.W.3d 235	21
2011	Nesbitt v. State	335 S.W.3d 67	20
2014	In the MATTER OF the ADOPTION OF E.N.C., Minor	458 S.W.3d 387	18
2013	State v. Moore†	411 S.W.3d 848	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 627 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 Roy L. Richter on?: Roy L. Richter is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).