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 1992 / Served to 2005

Miriam C. Shearing

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Miriam C. Shearing was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1992–2005 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Shearing authored 109 published opinions for the court (1993–2004), plus 35 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Brake v. State (248 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. 103 of these were attributed to Shearing 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
1997	Brake v. State· Concurrence†	939 P.2d 1029	248
2000	Byford v. State	994 P.2d 700	246
1998	Barmettler v. Reno Air, Inc.· Concurrence†	956 P.2d 1382	146
2001	Gallego v. State	23 P.3d 227	114
2002	LaMantia v. Redisi†	38 P.3d 877	87
1996	McKague v. Whitley	912 P.2d 255	85
1996	Domingues v. State	917 P.2d 1364	78
1997	Greene v. State	931 P.2d 54	71
2002	State v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada· Dissent†	42 P.3d 233	70
2001	Finger v. State· Dissent†	27 P.3d 66	67
2004	Butler v. State	102 P.3d 71	66
2000	Hollaway v. State	6 P.3d 987	66
1996	Scialabba v. Brandise Construction Co.	921 P.2d 928	60
2003	Shelton v. Shelton†	78 P.3d 507	57
2002	Richmond v. State· Concurrence†	59 P.3d 1249	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 183 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 Miriam C. Shearing on?: Miriam C. Shearing was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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13 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).