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 1947 / Served to 1958

Edgar Eather

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Edgar Eather was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1968
Tenure: 1947–1958 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Eather authored 130 published opinions for the court (1939–1958), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Application of Filippini (53 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. 43 of these were attributed to Eather 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
1949	Application of Filippini· Dissent	202 P.2d 535	53
1947	Wells, Inc. v. Shoemake	177 P.2d 451	48
1949	State Ex Rel. Culinary Workers Union, Local No. 226 v. Eighth Judicial District Court	207 P.2d 990	35
1939	Gottwals v. Rencher	92 P.2d 1000	34
1952	State Ex Rel. Allen v. Second Judicial District Court	245 P.2d 999	29
1952	Nevada Industrial Commission v. Peck	239 P.2d 244	27
1949	Tallman v. First National Bank	208 P.2d 302	25
1949	Benson v. Benson	204 P.2d 316	23
1948	King v. Board of Regents of the University of Nevada· Dissent	200 P.2d 221	23
1947	Shelton v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Washoe	185 P.2d 320	19
1952	Bryant v. Gibbs	243 P.2d 1050	18
1947	Ex Parte Schultz	181 P.2d 585	18
1955	Polito v. State	282 P.2d 801	17
1952	Roberts v. Hummel	243 P.2d 248	17
1955	Lathrop v. Smith	288 P.2d 212	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 137 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 Edgar Eather on?: Edgar Eather was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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11 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).