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 1974 / Served to 1982

Donald Brodkey

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Donald Brodkey was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1989
Tenure: 1974–1982 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brodkey authored 156 published opinions for the court (1974–1982), plus 11 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Stewart (131 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. 160 of these were attributed to Brodkey 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
1977	State v. Stewart†	250 N.W.2d 849	131
1978	State v. Scott†	263 N.W.2d 659	81
1980	State v. Morgan†	295 N.W.2d 285	78
1976	Holmes Ex Rel. Holmes v. Circo†	244 N.W.2d 65	71
1978	El Fredo Pizza, Inc. v. Roto-Flex Oven Co.†	261 N.W.2d 358	70
1977	State v. Costello†	256 N.W.2d 97	68
1981	State v. Ellis· Dissent†	303 N.W.2d 741	65
1976	Reeves v. Assoc. Financial Services Co., Inc.†	247 N.W.2d 434	58
1981	Kullbom v. Kullbom†	306 N.W.2d 844	57
1978	State v. Johnson†	268 N.W.2d 85	53
1978	Kuhlman v. Cargile†	262 N.W.2d 454	50
1978	Smith v. Wrehe†	261 N.W.2d 620	50
1975	Royal Indemnity Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	229 N.W.2d 183	49
1976	State v. Lacy†	237 N.W.2d 650	47
1978	Schaeffer v. Hunter†	263 N.W.2d 102	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 171 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 Donald Brodkey on?: Donald Brodkey was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

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8 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).