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 2018 / Active

John R. Freudenberg

Associate Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John R. Freudenberg is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Freudenberg authored 27 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Gallagher v. Graham (In Re Estate of Graham) (353 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. 27 of these were attributed to Freudenberg 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	Gallagher v. Graham (In Re Estate of Graham)†	301 Neb. 594	353
2019	State v. Schriner†	303 Neb. 476	221
2019	Pitts v. Genie Indus., Inc.†	302 Neb. 88	216
2019	Bayne v. Bayne†	302 Neb. 858	211
2019	State v. Gibson†	302 Neb. 833	167
2019	State v. Ralios†	301 Neb. 1027	161
2019	State v. Shiffermiller†	302 Neb. 245	157
2019	Wintroub v. Nationstar Mortg. LLC†	303 Neb. 15	152
2019	Moore v. Moore†	302 Neb. 588	152
2018	Pan v. IOC Realty Specialist Inc.†	301 Neb. 256	152
2019	State v. Chairez†	302 Neb. 731	141
2019	U.S. Pipeline v. Northern Natural Gas Co.†	303 Neb. 444	140
2018	State v. Savage†	301 Neb. 873	135
2018	Bower v. Eaton Corp.†	301 Neb. 311	127
2018	Christensen v. Gale†	301 Neb. 19	126

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 John R. Freudenberg on?: John R. Freudenberg is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).