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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 2004 / Active

Ron D. Parraguirre

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Ron D. Parraguirre is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of San Diego

Judicial Record

In our data, Parraguirre authored 69 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Ennis v. State (118 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. 71 of these were attributed to Parraguirre 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
2006	Ennis v. State	137 P.3d 1095	118
2007	Ellis v. Carucci†	123 Nev. 145	116
2008	Lioce v. Cohen· Concurrence†	174 P.3d 970	103
2008	Turner v. Mandalay Sports Entertainment, LLC†	180 P.3d 1172	86
2008	Cortinas v. State†	195 P.3d 315	85
2008	Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Thitchener†	124 Nev. 725	70
2013	Armenta-Carpio v. State†	129 Nev. 531	64
2019	Coker v. Sassone†	432 P.3d 746	53
2013	Humphries v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark†	129 Nev. 788	49
2013	Bisch v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department†	129 Nev. 328	47
2011	Ybarra v. State†	247 P.3d 269	47
2012	Winn v. Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center†	277 P.3d 458	42
2012	Brass v. State· Concurrence†	128 Nev. 748	40
2013	Perez v. State†	129 Nev. 850	38
2012	Pack v. LATOURETTE†	277 P.3d 1246	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 is Ron D. Parraguirre on?: Ron D. Parraguirre is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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22 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).