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 1998 / Served to 2004

Nancy A. Becker

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Nancy A. Becker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2004 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Becker authored 32 published opinions for the court (1999–2006), plus 3 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Evans v. State (144 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. 28 of these were attributed to Becker 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
2001	Evans v. State	28 P.3d 498	144
2005	Weber v. State	119 P.3d 107	109
2004	McConnell v. State· Concurrence†	102 P.3d 606	95
2004	Beazer Homes Nevada, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada†	97 P.3d 1132	88
2002	Rhyne v. State· Dissent†	38 P.3d 163	80
2002	Pegasus v. Reno Newspapers, Inc.†	57 P.3d 82	79
2003	Meyer v. State· Concurrence†	80 P.3d 447	76
2004	Olson v. Richard· Dissent†	89 P.3d 31	69
2001	Finger v. State†	27 P.3d 66	67
2003	State v. Bennett· Dissent†	81 P.3d 1	60
2001	Wynn v. Smith· Concurrence†	16 P.3d 424	53
2000	State v. Freese	13 P.3d 442	53
2001	Krause Inc. v. Little· Concurrence†	34 P.3d 566	52
2006	International Game Technology, Inc. v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Washoe	127 P.3d 1088	51
1999	Nevada Power Co. v. Haggerty	989 P.2d 870	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 Nancy A. Becker on?: Nancy A. Becker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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6 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).