How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1998

C Thomas White

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

C Thomas White was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1977–1998 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 945 published opinions for the court (1979–1998), plus 106 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Burlison (313 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. 343 of these were attributed to White 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
1998	State v. Burlison· Dissent†	583 N.W.2d 31	313
1998	O'CONNOR v. Kaufman	582 N.W.2d 350	282
1998	State v. Lotter	586 N.W.2d 591	266
1986	State v. Palmer· Concurrence†	399 N.W.2d 706	217
1997	State v. Jacques	570 N.W.2d 331	202
1998	Davidson v. Davidson	578 N.W.2d 848	170
1995	State v. Pierce	537 N.W.2d 323	153
1997	In Re Interest of Joshua	558 N.W.2d 548	150
1996	State v. Konfrst	556 N.W.2d 250	147
1996	Heins v. Webster County	552 N.W.2d 51	142
1998	State v. Jacob	574 N.W.2d 117	139
1998	State on Behalf of Hopkins v. Batt	573 N.W.2d 425	139
1997	State v. Gibbs	570 N.W.2d 326	137
1997	State v. Wilson	564 N.W.2d 241	136
1997	State v. Turner	564 N.W.2d 231	126

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,097 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was C Thomas White on?: C Thomas White was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).