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 1958 / Served to 1965

Frank McNamee

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Frank McNamee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1906 · age 120
Tenure: 1958–1965 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McNamee authored 181 published opinions for the court (1949–1965), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Nester v. State (86 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. 55 of these were attributed to McNamee 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
1959	Nester v. State	334 P.2d 524	86
1959	Johnson v. Brown	345 P.2d 754	53
1962	Gunlock v. New Frontier Hotel Corp.	370 P.2d 682	52
1960	Pinana v. State	352 P.2d 824	49
1963	Rice v. Clark County	382 P.2d 605	46
1961	Wyatt v. State	367 P.2d 104	42
1964	Dzack v. Marshall	393 P.2d 610	41
1964	Silver Dollar Club v. Cosgriff Neon Company	389 P.2d 923	37
1961	Las Vegas Hacienda, Inc. v. Gibson	359 P.2d 85	30
1960	Viale v. Foley	350 P.2d 721	28
1962	Walker v. State	376 P.2d 137	27
1961	McKenzie v. Shelly	362 P.2d 268	27
1962	Bower v. Landa	371 P.2d 657	26
1964	Victoria v. Young	392 P.2d 509	25
1964	State v. Plas	391 P.2d 867	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 184 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 Frank McNamee on?: Frank McNamee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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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).