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 1963 / Served to 1965

Samuel A. Dew

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Samuel A. Dew was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1963–1965 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dew authored 118 published opinions for the court (1944–1965). Most cited: Adoption of Mary, Marilyn Shelton and Ernest Wall (38 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. 14 of these were attributed to Dew 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
1946	Adoption of Mary, Marilyn Shelton and Ernest Wall	199 S.W.2d 68	38
1951	Edmondson v. Edmondson	242 S.W.2d 730	29
1951	White v. Hutton	240 S.W.2d 193	25
1955	Hudson v. Jones	278 S.W.2d 799	24
1951	Behnke v. City of Moberly	243 S.W.2d 549	24
1956	American Central Insurance Company v. Kirby	294 S.W.2d 556	22
1953	Hunter v. De Luxe Drive-In Theaters	257 S.W.2d 255	22
1952	O'NEAL v. Mavrakos Candy Co.	255 S.W.2d 138	21
1952	Neely v. Kansas City Public Service Co.	252 S.W.2d 88	21
1947	Williams v. Williams	205 S.W.2d 949	19
1964	Neeley v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF MO., DIV. OF EMP. SEC†	379 S.W.2d 201	18
1949	Bank of Thayer v. Klump Transfer Co.	219 S.W.2d 297	18
1947	Crollard v. Northern Insurance	200 S.W.2d 375	17
1945	Zarisky v. Kansas City Public Service Co.	186 S.W.2d 854	17
1955	Ensign v. Home for the Jewish Aged	274 S.W.2d 502	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 118 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 Samuel A. Dew on?: Samuel A. Dew was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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2 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).