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 1938 / Served to 1963

Robert G. Simmons

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Robert G. Simmons was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1969
Tenure: 1938–1963 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Hastings College

Judicial Record

In our data, Simmons authored 1,830 published opinions for the court (1939–1963), plus 29 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: From v. Sutton (130 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. 345 of these were attributed to Simmons 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
1953	From v. Sutton	56 N.W.2d 441	130
1959	Kirchner v. Gast	100 N.W.2d 65	117
1946	Jackson v. Olson†	146 Neb. 885	100
1946	Sedlacek v. State†	147 Neb. 834	99
1961	United Services Automobile Association v. Hills	109 N.W.2d 174	93
1959	Peterson v. George	96 N.W.2d 627	93
1949	Greenberg v. Fireman's Fund Insurance†	150 Neb. 695	89
1952	Wagner v. City of Omaha	55 N.W.2d 490	88
1951	Feight v. Mathers	46 N.W.2d 492	88
1957	State Ex Rel. Beck v. City of York	82 N.W.2d 269	77
1961	Prucha v. Department of Motor Vehicles	110 N.W.2d 75	76
1954	Buford v. Dahlke	62 N.W.2d 252	75
1952	Sullivan v. Storz	55 N.W.2d 499	73
1955	Russo v. Williams	71 N.W.2d 131	71
1962	Spath v. Morrow	115 N.W.2d 581	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,866 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 Robert G. Simmons on?: Robert G. Simmons was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).