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 1999 / Served to 2012

Sherri Sullivan

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Sherri Sullivan was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 625 published opinions for the court (1999–2023). Most cited: Twin Chimneys Homeowners Ass'n v. J.E. Jones Construction Co. (40 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. 98 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
2005	Twin Chimneys Homeowners Ass'n v. J.E. Jones Construction Co.	168 S.W.3d 488	40
2002	Duvall v. Lawrence	86 S.W.3d 74	40
2002	Moore Ex Rel. Moore v. Bi-State Development Agency	87 S.W.3d 279	36
2001	McGowan v. McGowan	43 S.W.3d 857	34
2008	Ryann Spencer Group, Inc. v. Assurance Co. of America	275 S.W.3d 284	33
2000	Weicht v. Suburban Newspapers of Greater St. Louis, Inc.	32 S.W.3d 592	33
2001	Bueneman v. Zykan	52 S.W.3d 49	29
2011	Sturgeon v. Allied Professionals Insurance Co.	344 S.W.3d 205	28
2006	Berwin v. Lindenwood Female College	205 S.W.3d 291	28
2004	Romeo v. Jones	144 S.W.3d 324	27
2003	Hinton v. Proctor & Schwartz, Inc.	99 S.W.3d 454	27
2008	Woods v. QC Financial Services, Inc.†	280 S.W.3d 90	26
2002	First State Bank of St. Charles v. Frankel	86 S.W.3d 161	26
2005	State v. Johnson	182 S.W.3d 667	25
2000	Shelton v. Shelton	29 S.W.3d 400	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 625 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 Sherri Sullivan on?: Sherri Sullivan was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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13 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).