How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1978 / Served to 1987

Norman Krivosha

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Norman Krivosha was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1978–1987 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Krivosha authored 2,476 published opinions for the court (1979–2009), plus 10 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Palmer (217 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. 82 of these were attributed to Krivosha 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
1986	State v. Palmer	399 N.W.2d 706	217
1987	Mendoza v. Omaha Meat Processors	408 N.W.2d 280	169
1985	Witherspoon v. Sides Const. Co., Inc.	362 N.W.2d 35	164
1987	Rahmig v. Mosley MacHinery Co.	412 N.W.2d 56	154
1983	State v. Lamb	330 N.W.2d 462	132
1981	Allstate Insurance v. Novak	313 N.W.2d 636	125
1981	State v. Buchanan	312 N.W.2d 684	123
1983	State v. Manchester	331 N.W.2d 776	109
1982	Van Newkirk v. Van Newkirk	325 N.W.2d 832	108
1987	Norquay v. Union Pacific Railroad	407 N.W.2d 146	106
1981	State v. Tweedy	309 N.W.2d 94	106
1984	State v. Reeves	344 N.W.2d 433	102
1986	Taylor v. Taylor	386 N.W.2d 851	101
1979	State v. Williams	287 N.W.2d 18	101
1979	State Ex Rel. Douglas v. Nebraska Mortgage Finance Fund	283 N.W.2d 12	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,500 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Norman Krivosha on?: Norman Krivosha was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).