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 2016 / Active

Jeffrey J. Funke

Chief Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Jeffrey J. Funke is a Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, serving since 2016. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2016	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Funke authored 44 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: State v. Swindle (620 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. 44 of these were attributed to Funke 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
2018	State v. Swindle†	300 Neb. 734	620
2018	Jacobs Eng'g Grp. Inc. v. Conagra Foods, Inc.†	301 Neb. 38	477
2018	Wisner v. Vandelay Invs., L.L.C.†	300 Neb. 825	407
2018	State v. Allen†	301 Neb. 560	365
2018	Mays v. Midnite Dreams, Inc.†	300 Neb. 485	355
2019	Transcanada Keystone Pipeline, LP v. Dunavan (In Re Application No. Op-0003)†	303 Neb. 872	354
2018	State v. Cotton†	299 Neb. 650	336
2018	Cullinane v. Beverly Enters.-Neb., Inc.†	300 Neb. 210	310
2018	Hotz v. Hotz†	301 Neb. 102	299
2018	State v. Uhing†	301 Neb. 768	271
2019	State v. Goynes†	303 Neb. 129	253
2019	JB & Assocs. v. Nebraska Cancer Coalition†	303 Neb. 855	250
2019	Patterson v. Metropolitan Util. Dist.†	302 Neb. 442	242
2019	Dooling v. Dooling†	303 Neb. 494	239
2018	State v. Coble†	299 Neb. 434	226

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 is Jeffrey J. Funke on?: Jeffrey J. Funke is a Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).