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

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

Nebraska Court of Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 2013

Richard Sievers

Judge, Nebraska Court of Appeals

Richard Sievers was a Judge of the Nebraska Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2013 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Nebraska Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sievers authored 480 published opinions for the court (1992–2010), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Coffey v. Coffey (117 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. 152 of these were attributed to Sievers 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
2003	Coffey v. Coffey	661 N.W.2d 327	117
2008	State v. Shipler	758 N.W.2d 41	81
2009	Klimek v. Klimek	775 N.W.2d 444	69
2002	In Re Interest of Stephanie H.†	639 N.W.2d 668	69
2008	Edwards v. Edwards	744 N.W.2d 243	68
1995	State v. Wiemer	533 N.W.2d 122	67
1998	State v. Collins	583 N.W.2d 341	61
1995	Beal v. Endsley	529 N.W.2d 125	61
1993	Vergara v. Lopez-Vasquez	510 N.W.2d 550	61
1998	State v. Owen	580 N.W.2d 566	58
2004	Boyle v. Boyle· Dissent†	12 Neb. Ct. App. 681	57
2002	State v. Hayes†	639 N.W.2d 418	56
2006	In Re Interest of Ethan M.†	15 Neb. Ct. App. 148	53
2002	State v. Dailey†	639 N.W.2d 141	53
2004	State v. Brown	12 Neb. Ct. App. 940	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 490 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Richard Sievers on?: Richard Sievers was a Judge of the Nebraska Court of Appeals.

Sources

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