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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 2006 / Former Justice

Michael Cherry

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Michael Cherry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cherry authored 64 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 13 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: McLellan v. State (184 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 Cherry 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	McLellan v. State†	182 P.3d 106	184
2007	Rose v. State†	163 P.3d 408	154
2008	Nika v. State· Concurrence†	198 P.3d 839	149
2007	Cuzze v. University & Community College System†	123 Nev. 598	148
2009	Sanchez Ex Rel. Sanchez v. Wal-Mart· Dissent†	221 P.3d 1276	137
2011	Nunnery v. State†	263 P.3d 235	126
2012	Weddell v. H2O, INC.†	271 P.3d 743	122
2018	SFR Invs. Pool 1, LLC v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon†	422 P.3d 1248	114
2010	Wyeth v. Rowatt†	244 P.3d 765	109
2012	Club Vista Financial Services, L.L.C. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark†	128 Nev. 224	100
2012	State v. Huebler· Dissent†	275 P.3d 91	99
2009	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Miller· Concurrence†	212 P.3d 318	99
2010	Higgs v. State· Concurrence†	222 P.3d 648	80
2013	State v. Lloyd· Dissent†	129 Nev. 739	66
2012	Foster v. Costco Wholesale Corp.†	128 Nev. 773	62

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 was Michael Cherry on?: Michael Cherry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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20 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).