List of Justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court

Following is a list of Justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court:

Territorial Justices

  Indicates Territorial Chief Justice

JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Fenner Ferguson18541857
Edward R. Harden18541860
James Bradley18541857
J. W. Underwood1857[1]1857
Samuel W. Black18571859
Eleazer Wakeley18571861
Augustus Hall18581861
Joseph Miller18591860
William Pitt Kellogg18611865[2]
William F. Lockwood18611867
Joseph E. Streeter18611863
Elmer S. Dundy18631867
William Kellogg18651867

State Supreme Court Justices

  Indicates Chief Justice

JudgeBegan ServiceEnded ServiceSeat/District
William A. Little[3]--Seat I
Oliver P. Mason1867[4]1873Seat I
George B. Lake18671873[5]Seat II
Lorenzo Crounse18671873Seat III
George B. Lake1873[5]1878[6]Seat II
Daniel Gantt18731878[5]Seat I
Samuel Maxwell18731878[5]Seat III
Daniel Gantt1878[5]1878[7]Seat I
Samuel Maxwell1878[8]1882[9]Seat III
George B. Lake1878[10]1882[11]Seat II
Amasa Cobb1878[12]1884[5]Seat I
George B. Lake1882[13]1884Seat II
Samuel Maxwell1882[14]1886[15]Seat III
Amasa Cobb1884[5]1886[16]Seat I
Manoah B. Reese18841888[5]Seat II
Samuel Maxwell1886[17]1888[18]Seat III
Amasa Cobb1886[19]1890[20]Seat I
Manoah B. Reese1888[5]1890[21]Seat II
Samuel Maxwell1888[22]1892[23]Seat III
Amasa Cobb1890[24]1892Seat I
T. L. Norval18901894[5]Seat II
Samuel Maxwell1892[25]1894Seat III
Alfred M. Post18921896[5]Seat I
T. L. Norval1894[5]1896[26]Seat II
T. O. C. Harrison18941898[5]Seat III
Alfred M. Post1896[5]1898Seat I
T. L. Norval1896[27]1900[28]Seat II
T. O. C. Harrison1898[5]1900Seat III
John Joseph Sullivan18981902[5]Seat I
T. L. Norval1900[29]1902Seat II
Silas A. Holcomb19001904[5]Seat III
John Joseph Sullivan1902[5]1904Seat I
Samuel H. Sedgwick19021906[5]Seat II
Silas A. Holcomb1904[5]1906Seat III
John B. Barnes19041908[5]Seat I
Samuel H. Sedgwick1906[5]1908[30]Seat II
Charles B. Letton19061925Seat III/District 3
John B. Barnes19081909[31]Seat I
Manoah B. Reese1908[32]1909[33]Seat II
Manoah B. Reese1909[34]1915-
James R. Dean1909[35]1910[36]District 2
Jesse L. Root1909[35]1911District 5
Jacob Fawcett1909[35]1917District 6
William B. Rose1909[35]1943District 1
John B. Barnes1909[37]1917District 4
Samuel H. Sedgwick1910[38]1919[7]District 2
Francis G. Hamer19111918[7]District 5
Conrad Hollenbeck1915[7][39]1915-
Jacob Fawcett1915[40]1915-
Andrew M. Morrissey1915[41]1927-
Albert J. Cornish19171920[7]District 4
James R. Dean1917[42]1935District 6
Chester Hardy Aldrich1918[43]1924[7]District 5
Leonard A. Flansburg1920[44]1923District 4
George A. Day1920[45]1927[7]District 2
Edward E. Good19231937[7]District 4
William Henry Thompson1924[46]1931District 5
Robert E. Evans19251925[7]District 3
George A. Eberly1925[47]1943District 3
Charles A. Goss19271938[7]-
Francis S. Howell1928[48]1929District 2
L. B. Day19291938[7]District 2
Bayard H. Paine19311949District 5
Edward F. Carter19351971District 6
Frederick Messmore1937[49]1965District 4
Harvey M. Johnsen1939[50]1940District 2
Robert G. Simmons1939[51]1963-
John W. Yeager1941[52]1965District 2
E. B. Chappell19431961District 1
Adolph E. Wenke19431961[7]District 3
P. E. Boslaugh19491961District 5
Harry A. Spencer19611979[53]District 1
Leslie Boslaugh19611994[53]District 5
Robert C. Brower1961[54]1967District 3
Paul W. White19631978[53]-
Hale McCown1965[55]1983[53]District 4
Robert L. Smith1965[55]1973[53]District 2
John E. Newton1967[55]1977[53]District 3
Lawrence M. Clinton1971[55]1982[7]District 6
Donald Brodkey1974[55]1982[53]District 2
C. Thomas White1977[56]1995[57]District 3
Harry A. Spencer19781978[58]-
Norman Krivosha1978[55]1987[59]-
William C. Hastings1979[60]1987[61]District 1
D. Nick Caporale1982[62]1998[53]District 2
Thomas M. Shanahan1983[63]1993[64]District 6
John T. Grant1983[65]1993[53]District 4
William C. Hastings1987[66]1995[53]-
Dale E. Fahrnbruch1987[67]1996[53]District 1
David J. Lanphier1993[68]1997[69]District 4
John F. Wright1994[70]2018[71][7]District 6
William M. Connolly1994[72]2016District 5
C. Thomas White1995[73]1998[53]-
John M. Gerrard1995[74]2012District 3
Kenneth C. Stephan1997[75]2015District 1
Michael McCormack1997[76]2016District 4
John V. Hendry1998[77]2006[53]-
Lindsey Miller-Lerman1998[78]IncumbentDistrict 2
Michael G. Heavican2006[79]Incumbent-
William B. Cassel2012[80]IncumbentDistrict 3
Stephanie F. Stacy2015IncumbentDistrict 1
Max J. Kelch20162018[81]District 4
Jeffrey J. Funke2016IncumbentDistrict 5
Jonathan Papik2018[82]IncumbentDistrict 4
John Freudenberg2018[83]IncumbentDistrict 6

Information Gathered from Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court, the Nebraska Blue Book, and http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/MWHNE/mwhne694.htm

References

  1. ↑ Listed as an associate judge of the Supreme Court in Complete Session Laws, 1855-87, Vol. 1, Page 370.
  2. ↑ Granted leave of absence by President Lincoln to join the 7th Illinois Cavalry. Served as colonel in the regiment from Sept.|8, 1861, to June 1, 1862. Resigned as territorial chief justice in 1865.
  3. ↑ Elected in 1867 but died before he qualified.
  4. ↑ Appointed in 1867; elected in 1868.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Named Chief Justice
  6. ↑ Returned to being Associate Justice
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Died while in office.
  8. ↑ Named Chief Justice after the death of Daniel Gantt
  9. ↑ Returned To Associate Justice
  10. ↑ Was previously Chief Justice
  11. ↑ Named Chief Justice again
  12. ↑ Appointed in 1878 to fill vacancy created by death of Chief Justice Gantt, then elected 1879.
  13. ↑ Named Chief Justice a second time
  14. ↑ Was Chief Justice
  15. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  16. ↑ Returned to Associate Justice
  17. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  18. ↑ Returned To Associated Justice
  19. ↑ Was Chief Justice
  20. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  21. ↑ Served Again 1908-1915
  22. ↑ Was Chief Justice
  23. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Third Time
  24. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  25. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Third Time
  26. ↑ Returned to Associate Justice
  27. ↑ Was Chief Justice
  28. ↑ Named Chief Justice for Second Time
  29. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  30. ↑ Served again 1910-1919
  31. ↑ Returned to Being an Associate Justice
  32. ↑ Served Previously 1884-1890
  33. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  34. ↑ Named Chief Justice a Second Time
  35. 1 2 3 4 Constitutional amendment approved in 1908 increased number of Supreme Court judges from three to seven. The governor appointed four judges, two to serve until successors were elected in the 1909 general election, and the other two to serve until successors were elected in the 1911 general election.
  36. ↑ Served again from 1917-1935
  37. ↑ Was previously Chief Justice
  38. ↑ Served Previously 1902-1908
  39. ↑ Served from Jan. 7 to 21, 1915; died Jan. 21, 1915.
  40. ↑ Acting chief justice Jan. 21 to 25, 1915.
  41. ↑ Appointed chief justice Jan. 25, 1915, to fill vacancy created by death of Chief Justice Hollenbeck.
  42. ↑ Served Previously 1909-1910
  43. ↑ Appointed Nov. 16, 1918, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Hamer. Aldrich died March 10, 1924.
  44. ↑ Appointed April 21, 1920, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Cornish.
  45. ↑ Appointed Jan. 8, 1920, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Sedgwick. Judge Day died Dec. 20, 1927.
  46. ↑ Appointed April 15, 1924, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Aldrich.
  47. ↑ Appointed July 24, 1925, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Evans.
  48. ↑ Appointed Dec. 29, 1927, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge George A. Day.
  49. ↑ Appointed Aug. 9, 1937, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Good.
  50. ↑ Appointed Nov. 28, 1938, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge L. B. Day. Term began Jan. 3, 1939. Resigned Nov. 8, 1940, upon appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
  51. ↑ Appointed Nov. 12, 1938, to fill vacancy created by death of Chief Justice Goss. Term began Jan. 5, 1939.
  52. ↑ Appointed Nov. 18, 1940, to fill vacancy created by resignation of Judge Johnsen.
  53. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Retired.
  54. ↑ Appointed March 13, 1961, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Wenke.
  55. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Appointed to fill vacancy.
  56. ↑ Appointed Jan. 6, 1977, to replace retiring Judge Newton.
  57. ↑ Named Chief Justice Jan. 26, 1995, to replace retiring Chief Justice Hastings.
  58. ↑ Served as chief justice pro tempore from Sept. 18 to Dec. 22, 1978.
  59. ↑ Resigned July 31, 1987.
  60. ↑ Appointed Jan. 31, 1979, to replace retiring Judge Spencer.
  61. ↑ Named Chief Justice Sept. 2, 1987, following resignation of Chief Justice Krivosha.
  62. ↑ Appointed Dec. 21, 1981, to replace retiring Judge Brodkey.
  63. ↑ Appointed March 24, 1983, to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Clinton.
  64. ↑ Resigned to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
  65. ↑ Appointed Sept. 1, 1983, to replace retiring Judge McCown.
  66. ↑ Named chief justice Sept. 2, 1987, following resignation of Chief Justice Krivosha.
  67. ↑ Appointed Nov. 13, 1987, to fill vacancy created when Judge Hastings was named chief justice.
  68. ↑ Appointed Oct. 14, 1992, to replace retiring Judge Grant.
  69. ↑ Voters removed Judge Lanphier from the bench in 1996.
  70. ↑ Appointed Jan. 27, 1994, to replace Judge Shanahan, who resigned to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
  71. ↑ http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/nebraska-supreme-court-justice-john-wright-dies-following-lengthy-illness/article_06cbd0d5-4e3b-5f68-a31d-ebe75a784067.html
  72. ↑ Appointed Nov. 17, 1994, to replace retiring Judge Leslie Boslaugh.
  73. ↑ Named chief justice Jan. 26, 1995, to replace retiring Chief Justice Hastings.
  74. ↑ Appointed April 20, 1995, to fill vacancy created when Judge C. Thomas White was named chief justice.
  75. ↑ Appointed Jan. 27, 1997, to replace retiring Judge Farhnbruch.
  76. ↑ Appointed Jan. 28, 1997, to fill vacancy created when voters removed Judge Lanphier from the bench.
  77. ↑ Appointed chief justice Aug. 5, 1998, to replace retiring Chief Justice C. Thomas White.
  78. ↑ Appointed Aug. 5, 1998, to replace retiring Judge Caporale.
  79. ↑ Appointed Oct. 1, 2006, to replace retiring Chief Justice Hendry.
  80. ↑ Appointed April 26, 2012, to fill vacancy created by appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
  81. ↑ http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/nebraska-supreme-court-judge-resigned-after-ethics-complaint-sexual-comments/article_7131f80e-9fbd-5ecd-be6f-6cbd74c0a831.html
  82. ↑ http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ricketts-pick-for-nebraska-supreme-court-operating-on-higher-level/article_976f9ddf-3804-56bf-922d-882d394c2118.html
  83. ↑ https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/newly-appointed-lancaster-county-judge-tapped-for-seat-on-nebraska/article_f609a331-d45c-5217-96f8-3264969c300f.html
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