How do judges of the Supreme Court of Nevada reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 2002 / Former Justice

Mark Gibbons

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Mark Gibbons was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibbons authored 79 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 9 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Valdez v. State (368 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 Gibbons 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
2008	Valdez v. State· Dissent†	196 P.3d 465	368
2013	Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC†	129 Nev. 343	305
2011	Powell v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance†	252 P.3d 668	158
2007	D.R. Horton, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court†	123 Nev. 468	138
2008	Miller v. Burk†	188 P.3d 1112	126
2008	Mitchell v. State†	192 P.3d 721	103
2009	Rivero v. Rivero†	216 P.3d 213	100
2009	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Miller†	212 P.3d 318	99
2008	Turner v. Mandalay Sports Entertainment, LLC	180 P.3d 1172	86
2005	Blake v. State	121 P.3d 567	81
2004	United Nat'l Ins. Co. v. Frontier Ins. Co.	99 P.3d 1153	77
2009	Bower v. Harrah's Laughlin, Inc.†	215 P.3d 709	73
2005	Sheehan & Sheehan v. Nelson Malley & Co.†	117 P.3d 219	72
2005	Rico v. Rodriguez†	120 P.3d 812	69
2004	Butler v. State· Concurrence†	102 P.3d 71	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 was Mark Gibbons on?: Mark Gibbons was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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24 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).