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 1998 / Served to 2005

Deborah Agosti

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Deborah Agosti was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2005 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Agosti authored 44 published opinions for the court (1999–2004), plus 6 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Means v. State (312 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. 39 of these were attributed to Agosti 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
2004	Means v. State†	103 P.3d 25	312
2004	Ringle v. Bruton	86 P.3d 1032	81
2000	Collman v. State	7 P.3d 426	79
2003	Meyer v. State	80 P.3d 447	76
2004	Butler v. State· Concurrence†	102 P.3d 71	66
2003	State v. Bennett	81 P.3d 1	60
2004	Rudin v. State	86 P.3d 572	58
2001	Lee v. GNLV CORP.†	22 P.3d 209	58
2002	Braunstein v. State	40 P.3d 413	55
2000	State v. Freese· Concurrence†	13 P.3d 442	53
1999	Nevada Power Co. v. Haggerty· Dissent†	989 P.2d 870	51
2002	Vaile v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada†	118 Nev. 262	40
2002	City of Las Vegas v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada	59 P.3d 477	38
2000	Parrish v. State†	12 P.3d 953	35
2000	Brown v. Eighth Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Clark· Dissent†	14 P.3d 1266	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 Deborah Agosti on?: Deborah Agosti was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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7 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).