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 1994 / Former Justice

John F. Wright

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John F. Wright was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 247 published opinions for the court (1994–2010), plus 32 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Burlison (313 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. 101 of these were attributed to Wright 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
1998	State v. Burlison· Concurrence†	583 N.W.2d 31	313
1999	Holste v. Burlington Northern Railroad	592 N.W.2d 894	211
2007	State v. Archie	733 N.W.2d 513	199
2009	State v. Galindo	774 N.W.2d 190	186
2002	Gibilisco v. Gibilisco	637 N.W.2d 898	185
1999	Farnsworth v. Farnsworth	597 N.W.2d 592	181
2008	In Re Olmer	752 N.W.2d 124	172
2006	Millatmal v. Millatmal	723 N.W.2d 79	153
1995	State v. Pierce· Dissent†	537 N.W.2d 323	153
2006	State v. Robinson	724 N.W.2d 35	149
2006	Stewart v. Advanced Gaming Technologies, Inc.	272 Neb. 471	149
2008	State v. Schreiner	276 Neb. 393	142
1998	State v. Jacob†	574 N.W.2d 117	139
2008	State v. Jackson	275 Neb. 434	132
2000	Brown v. Brown· Concurrence†	621 N.W.2d 70	132

Showing the 15 most-cited of 296 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 F. Wright on?: John F. Wright was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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32 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).