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 1998 / Served to 2006

John V. Hendry

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John V. Hendry was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1998–2006 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hendry authored 1,434 published opinions for the court (1998–2006). Most cited: Schafersman v. Agland Coop. (492 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. 3 of these were attributed to Hendry 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
2001	Schafersman v. Agland Coop.	631 N.W.2d 862	492
2002	State v. Thomas	637 N.W.2d 632	379
2004	State v. Buckman	267 Neb. 505	274
2004	Gangwish v. Gangwish	678 N.W.2d 503	264
2005	State v. Loyd	269 Neb. 762	249
2000	Kalkowski v. Kalkowski	607 N.W.2d 517	243
1999	State v. Urbano	589 N.W.2d 144	240
2005	Johnson v. State	700 N.W.2d 620	231
2006	State v. Molina	713 N.W.2d 412	226
2005	Eicher v. Mid America Financial Investment Corp.	702 N.W.2d 792	226
1998	State v. Silvers	587 N.W.2d 325	223
2002	Vogel v. Vogel	637 N.W.2d 611	216
2006	Strunk v. Chromy-Strunk	270 Neb. 917	209
1999	State v. Louthan	595 N.W.2d 917	206
2006	Blinn v. Beatrice Community Hospital & Health Center, Inc.	708 N.W.2d 235	191

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,434 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 was John V. Hendry on?: John V. Hendry was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).