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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1999 / Served to 2004

Myron E. Leavitt

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Myron E. Leavitt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–2004
Tenure: 1999–2004 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Leavitt authored 20 published opinions for the court (1999–2004), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Beckwith (91 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. 18 of these were attributed to Leavitt 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
1999	Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Beckwith	989 P.2d 882	91
2004	University & Cmty. Coll. Sys. v. Sutton	103 P.3d 8	69
2001	Finger v. State· Concurrence†	27 P.3d 66	67
2003	State v. Haberstroh· Concurrence†	69 P.3d 676	60
2002	Williams v. State†	50 P.3d 1116	42
2000	Diaz v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada	993 P.2d 50	35
2000	Sengel v. IGT	2 P.3d 258	32
2000	State v. Lisenbee	13 P.3d 947	31
2001	Tarango v. State Industrial Insurance System	25 P.3d 175	30
1999	Sahara Gaming Corp. v. Culinary Workers Union Local 226	984 P.2d 164	30
2001	State Ex Rel. Harvey v. Second Judicial District Court· Dissent†	32 P.3d 1263	28
2000	Peck v. State	7 P.3d 470	27
2001	Servin v. State· Concurrence†	32 P.3d 1277	24
1999	Manley v. State· Dissent†	979 P.2d 703	23
2003	T.R. v. State, Division of Child & Family Services· Dissent†	119 Nev. 646	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 33 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 Myron E. Leavitt on?: Myron E. Leavitt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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5 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).