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 1986 / Served to 2004

William Crandall

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

William Crandall was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2004 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crandall authored 783 published opinions for the court (1982–2005), plus 14 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Wesolich v. Goeke (98 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. 467 of these were attributed to Crandall 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
1990	State Ex Rel. Wesolich v. Goeke	794 S.W.2d 692	98
1983	Ware v. Ware	647 S.W.2d 582	81
1987	Faheen Ex Rel. Hebron v. City Parking Corp.	734 S.W.2d 270	66
1987	Terre Du Lac Ass'n v. Terre Du Lac, Inc.	737 S.W.2d 206	58
1983	In the Interest of J.A.J.	652 S.W.2d 745	54
1987	Wynn v. Wynn	738 S.W.2d 915	53
1986	Hill v. Air Shields, Inc.	721 S.W.2d 112	49
1996	Schroeder v. Schroeder	924 S.W.2d 22	44
1983	Marriage of Lynch v. Lynch	665 S.W.2d 20	42
2002	Heffernan v. Reinhold· Concurrence†	73 S.W.3d 659	40
1992	Dave Kolb Grading, Inc. v. Lieberman Corp.	837 S.W.2d 924	39
1996	Acetylene Gas Co. v. Oliver	939 S.W.2d 404	38
1985	Johnson v. Raban	702 S.W.2d 134	37
1988	Foster v. State	748 S.W.2d 903	36
1986	Lipton Realty, Inc. v. St. Louis Housing Authority	705 S.W.2d 565	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 809 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 William Crandall on?: William Crandall was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).