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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 2008 / Active

Kristina Pickering

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Kristina Pickering is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pickering authored 68 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Bank of Am., N.A. v. SFR Invs. Pool 1, LLC (354 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. 92 of these were attributed to Pickering 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	Bank of Am., N.A. v. SFR Invs. Pool 1, LLC†	427 P.3d 113	354
2011	State v. Eighth Judicial District Court ex rel. County of Clark· Dissent†	127 Nev. 927	263
2010	AA PRIMO BUILDERS, LLC v. Washington†	245 P.3d 1190	173
2012	Certified Fire Protection, Inc. v. Precision Construction, Inc.†	128 Nev. 371	159
2013	Chapman v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.†	129 Nev. 314	110
2012	Jackson v. State†	128 Nev. 598	102
2009	Rivero v. Rivero· Concurrence†	216 P.3d 213	100
2013	Galardi v. Naples Polaris, L.L.C.†	129 Nev. 306	95
2010	State v. Castaneda†	245 P.3d 550	87
2013	State v. Lloyd†	129 Nev. 739	66
2018	Rippo v. State· Concurrence†	423 P.3d 1084	59
2010	Schuck v. Signature Flight Support of Nevada, Inc.†	245 P.3d 542	55
2018	U.S. Home Corp. v. Michael Ballesteros Trust†	415 P.3d 32	54
2013	State v. Beckman†	129 Nev. 481	51
2013	I. Cox Construction Co. v. CH2 Investments, LLC†	129 Nev. 139	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 is Kristina Pickering on?: Kristina Pickering is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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18 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).