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 2004 / Former Justice

Michael L. Douglas

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Michael L. Douglas was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Douglas authored 89 published opinions for the court (2005–2018), plus 2 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Buzz Stew, LLC v. City of North Las Vegas (355 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. 89 of these were attributed to Douglas 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	Buzz Stew, LLC v. City of North Las Vegas†	181 P.3d 670	355
2011	State v. Eighth Judicial District Court ex rel. County of Clark†	127 Nev. 927	263
2012	State v. Huebler†	275 P.3d 91	99
2018	Saticoy Bay LLC v. Fed. Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n†	417 P.3d 363	98
2008	Grey v. State†	178 P.3d 154	74
2012	Bigpond v. State†	270 P.3d 1244	73
2008	Baldonado v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC†	194 P.3d 96	72
2012	FGA, INC. v. Giglio†	278 P.3d 490	54
2009	Mendoza-Lobos v. State· Concurrence†	218 P.3d 501	54
2013	State v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark†	129 Nev. 492	52
2012	Ryan's Express Transportation Services, Inc. v. Amador Stage Lines, Inc.†	128 Nev. 289	51
2011	Valley Health System, LLC v. Eighth Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Clark†	252 P.3d 676	51
2008	Truck Insurance Exchange v. Palmer J. Swanson, Inc.†	189 P.3d 656	47
2010	Gonski v. Second Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Washoe†	245 P.3d 1164	45
2010	Cromer v. Wilson†	225 P.3d 788	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 L. Douglas on?: Michael L. Douglas was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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22 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).