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 1996 / Active

Victor C. Howard

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Victor C. Howard is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1996 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Judicial Record

In our data, Howard authored 540 published opinions for the court (1965–2019), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Landie v. Century Indemnity Company (68 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. 453 of these were attributed to Howard 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
1965	Landie v. Century Indemnity Company	390 S.W.2d 558	68
2006	Thompson v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.†	207 S.W.3d 76	59
2011	McCrainey v. Kansas City Missouri School District†	337 S.W.3d 746	54
2006	Peters v. General Motors Corp.	200 S.W.3d 1	50
2006	Shelter Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ballew†	203 S.W.3d 789	44
2008	Lueker v. Missouri Western State University†	241 S.W.3d 865	43
2003	Davolt v. Highland†	119 S.W.3d 118	43
2010	State Ex Rel. Humane Society of Missouri v. Beetem†	317 S.W.3d 669	41
2000	Juvenile Officer v. P.S.L.†	32 S.W.3d 804	37
2013	Dilley v. Valentine†	401 S.W.3d 544	36
2008	Waller v. Shippey†	251 S.W.3d 403	35
2000	Capitol Indemnity Corp. v. Citizens National Bank of Fort Scott†	8 S.W.3d 893	35
2006	Children International v. Ammon Painting Co.†	215 S.W.3d 194	34
2000	Juvenile Officer v. M.D.†	18 S.W.3d 556	33
2008	Rinehart v. Shelter General Insurance Co.	261 S.W.3d 583	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 546 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 Victor C. Howard on?: Victor C. Howard is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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29 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).