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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1939 / Served to 1945

William Edwin Orr

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

William Edwin Orr was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1965
Tenure: 1939–1945 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Orr authored 5 published opinions for the court (1940–1943). Most cited: International Life Underwriters, Inc. v. Second Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Washoe (5 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. 5 of these were attributed to Orr 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
1941	International Life Underwriters, Inc. v. Second Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Washoe†	113 P.2d 616	5
1940	Barry v. Merickel Holding Corp.†	60 Nev. 280	3
1940	Nevada-California Transportation Co. v. Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad†	97 P.2d 433	3
1943	McAllister v. Montrose†	62 Nev. 121	0
1940	Roebling v. Walters†	60 Nev. 172	0

Showing the 5 most-cited of 5 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 was William Edwin Orr on?: William Edwin Orr was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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6 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).