Missouri Supreme Court — Paul C. Wilson retention
Source: enr.sos.mo.gov
What does this office do?
- Deciding what state laws and the state constitution mean
- Setting rulings that lower state courts must follow
- Deciding major criminal and civil cases
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Gun Control,
Paul C. Wilson
Nonpartisan · Incumbent · Official site
Judge Paul C. Wilson serves on the Supreme Court of Missouri and was the state's chief justice from 2021 to 2023. He worked earlier in the Missouri attorney general's office and in private practice in Columbia.
Where Paul C. Wilson stands, based on their records
Supports
Election Integrity (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Election Integrity
Election Integrity · 2 support
Dissented from a ruling upholding Missouri’s mid-decade congressional redistricting law, arguing the state constitution permits redistricting only after a new census.
March 24, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a dissent that would have struck down Missouri’s state Senate map over population differences and divided communities; the majority upheld the map.
February 14, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: law.justia.com
Track record — General
General · 19 records
Joined a unanimous ruling that Missouri voters could hold a referendum on the 2025 congressional map; the court ordered use of the 2022 map pending that vote.
September 3, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a unanimous ruling ordering a proposed constitutional amendment placed on the 2026 ballot after the secretary of state gave no valid reason to reject its petition.
September 3, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a unanimous opinion denying postconviction relief in a murder case after addressing the timeliness of the defendant’s motions and appointed counsel’s late filing.
July 7, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a unanimous ruling that challengers had not proved Missouri’s 2025 congressional map violated constitutional compactness and population standards.
May 12, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a unanimous ruling that filing a congressional-map referendum petition alone did not establish its sufficiency; certification and review still had to occur.
May 12, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a unanimous opinion disbarring attorney Brian Goldstein after finding he mishandled client funds and concealed clients from his law firm.
January 23, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a ruling upholding the 2024 election result for Proposition A after rejecting claims that its ballot summary misled voters.
April 29, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote the majority opinion restoring Missouri’s reproductive-freedom Amendment 3 to the 2024 ballot after rejecting challenges to the initiative petition’s form and single subject.
September 20, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a unanimous opinion upholding denial of postconviction relief for a man convicted of domestic assault and armed criminal action.
June 18, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a Supreme Court opinion ordering a new vote on Kansas City police funding after finding the fiscal summary on the 2022 ballot materially misleading.
April 30, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion upholding dismissal of a medical-malpractice suit because the patient had ended the treating relationship more than two years before filing.
January 30, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a unanimous opinion invalidating a 2022 Missouri law that combined unrelated provisions, including homelessness penalties and public-worker vaccine restrictions, in one bill.
December 19, 2023
Source: law.justia.com
Delivered the State of the Judiciary address to the Missouri legislature, calling for competitive court-employee pay and discussing court security and treatment courts.
February 8, 2023
Source: news.mobar.org
Wrote an opinion finding a court erred by treating abandoned charges as a basis for sex-offender registration, while denying the particular writ the petitioner requested.
April 26, 2022
Source: law.justia.com
Began a two-year term as chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.
July 1, 2021
Source: news.mobar.org
Wrote a unanimous opinion holding that probationers cannot use earned compliance credits to end probation early while court-ordered restitution remains unpaid.
February 13, 2019
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a Supreme Court ruling allowing trial judges discretion over whether tenants asserting unsafe housing conditions must deposit disputed rent with the court.
July 3, 2018
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a Supreme Court opinion restoring the Children’s Division’s ability to consider a mother for Missouri’s child-abuse registry after it missed an investigation deadline.
July 8, 2014
Source: law.justia.com
Represented the Missouri attorney general in a Supreme Court case that upheld the state tobacco settlement and its outside-counsel fee arrangement.
December 12, 2000
Source: law.justia.com
Source: sos.mo.gov