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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1966 / Served to 1976

David Zenoff

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

David Zenoff was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2005
Tenure: 1966–1976 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Zenoff authored 326 published opinions for the court (1965–1994), plus 9 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Round Hill General Improvement District v. Newman (399 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. 101 of these were attributed to Zenoff 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
1981	Round Hill General Improvement District v. Newman	637 P.2d 534	399
1976	Silks v. State	545 P.2d 1159	154
1975	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Peterson	540 P.2d 1070	124
1973	Turner v. Staggs· Concurrence†	510 P.2d 879	115
1972	General Electric Company v. Bush	498 P.2d 366	107
1966	Lisby v. State	414 P.2d 592	87
1969	Thompson v. State	451 P.2d 704	62
1968	Spillers v. State	436 P.2d 18	62
1965	Payne v. State	406 P.2d 922	56
1988	Goldman v. Bryan	764 P.2d 1296	50
1967	Schaumberg v. State	432 P.2d 500	50
1968	Crowe v. State	441 P.2d 90	48
1966	Pacheco v. State	414 P.2d 100	44
1972	Sargeant v. Sargeant	495 P.2d 618	43
1974	Clark County School District v. Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board†	90 Nev. 442	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 345 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 Supreme Court of Nevada reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was David Zenoff on?: David Zenoff was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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