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 2012 / Active

William B. Cassel

Associate Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

William B. Cassel is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cassel authored 45 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Mrza (778 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. 47 of these were attributed to Cassel 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	State v. Mrza†	302 Neb. 931	778
2018	Becher v. Becher†	299 Neb. 206	453
2019	McEwen v. Nebraska State College Sys.†	303 Neb. 552	382
2018	State v. Lotter†	917 N.W.2d 850	360
2018	State v. McGuire†	301 Neb. 895	358
2019	State v. Jenkins†	303 Neb. 676	348
2019	State v. Munoz†	303 Neb. 69	338
2019	State v. Sundquist†	301 Neb. 1006	322
2018	State v. Avina-Murillo†	301 Neb. 185	320
2019	State v. Blaha†	303 Neb. 415	292
2018	State v. Dill†	913 N.W.2d 470	263
2019	State v. Mann†	302 Neb. 804	219
2019	Denali Real Estate, LLC v. Denali Custom Builders, Inc.†	302 Neb. 984	174
2018	Chafin v. Wis. Province of the Soc'y of Jesus†	917 N.W.2d 821	153
2019	Christine W. v. Trevor W.†	303 Neb. 245	150

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 William B. Cassel on?: William B. Cassel is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).