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 2015 / Active

Stephanie F. Stacy

Associate Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Stephanie F. Stacy is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stacy authored 36 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Weyh v. Gottsch (450 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. 37 of these were attributed to Stacy 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
2019	Weyh v. Gottsch†	303 Neb. 280	450
2019	State on behalf of Kaaden S. v. Jeffery T.†	303 Neb. 933	411
2019	State v. Stelly†	304 Neb. 33	384
2018	State v. Golyar†	301 Neb. 488	297
2018	State v. Newman†	300 Neb. 770	267
2018	State ex rel. Rhiley v. Nebraska State Patrol†	301 Neb. 241	255
2018	State v. Barbeau†	301 Neb. 293	246
2018	State v. Kennedy†	299 Neb. 362	227
2018	State v. Hunt†	299 Neb. 573	222
2018	State v. Torres†	300 Neb. 694	212
2019	State v. Kruse†	303 Neb. 799	174
2018	State v. Stricklin†	300 Neb. 794	165
2018	Carlson v. Carlson†	299 Neb. 526	161
2018	State v. Betancourt-Garcia†	299 Neb. 775	155
2019	Burke v. Bd. of Trs. of the Neb. State Colls.†	302 Neb. 494	135

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 is Stephanie F. Stacy on?: Stephanie F. Stacy is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).