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 2004 / Former Justice

James W. Hardesty

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

James W. Hardesty was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hardesty authored 232 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 4 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: International Game Technology, Inc. v. Second Judicial District Court (466 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. 225 of these were attributed to Hardesty 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
2008	International Game Technology, Inc. v. Second Judicial District Court†	124 Nev. 193	466
2008	Valdez v. State†	196 P.3d 465	368
2005	Lader v. Warden, Northern Nevada Correctional Center†	120 P.3d 1164	362
2008	In Re Discipline of Lerner†	197 P.3d 1067	313
2005	May v. Anderson†	119 P.3d 1254	206
2010	Saavedra-Sandoval v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.†	245 P.3d 1198	152
2010	Personhood Nevada v. Bristol†	245 P.3d 572	149
2008	Nika v. State	198 P.3d 839	149
2007	Nelson v. Heer†	163 P.3d 420	140
2009	Sanchez Ex Rel. Sanchez v. Wal-Mart†	221 P.3d 1276	137
2012	Edelstein v. Bank of New York Mellon†	128 Nev. 505	125
2005	Pope v. MOTEL 6†	114 P.3d 277	119
2007	Leven v. Frey†	168 P.3d 712	114
2005	Shuette v. Beazer Homes Holdings Corp.	124 P.3d 530	104
2008	Lioce v. Cohen†	174 P.3d 970	103

Showing the 15 most-cited of 247 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 James W. Hardesty on?: James W. Hardesty was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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22 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).