# List of justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court

Following is a list of justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court:

## Territorial Supreme Court justices

Indicates Territorial Chief Justice
| Judge | Began active service | Ended active service |
| Fenner Ferguson | 1854 | 1857 |
| Edward R. Harden | 1854 | 1860 |
| James Bradley | 1854 | 1857 |
| John Curtiss Underwood | 1857 | 1857 |
| Samuel W. Black | 1857 | 1859 |
| Eleazer Wakeley | 1857 | 1861 |
| Augustus Hall | 1858 | 1861 |
| Joseph Miller | 1859 | 1860 |
| William Pitt Kellogg | 1861 | 1865 |
| William F. Lockwood | 1861 | 1867 |
| Joseph E. Streeter | 1861 | 1863 |
| Elmer S. Dundy | 1863 | 1867 |
| William Kellogg | 1865 | 1867 |

## State Supreme Court chief justices

| Chief Justice | Began service | Ended service | Seat/district | Appointed by |
| Oliver P. Mason | 1867 | 1873 | Seat I | Elected |
| George B. Lake | 1873 | 1878 | Seat II | Elected |
| Daniel Gantt | 1878 | 1878 | Seat I | Elected |
| Samuel Maxwell | 1878 | 1882 | Seat III | Elected |
| George B. Lake | 1882 | 1884 | Seat II | Elected |
| Amasa Cobb | 1884 | 1886 | Seat I | Elected |
| Samuel Maxwell | 1886 | 1888 | Seat III | Elected |
| Manoah B. Reese | 1888 | 1890 | Seat II | Elected |
| Amasa Cobb | 1890 | 1892 | Seat I | Elected |
| Samuel Maxwell | 1892 | 1894 | Seat III | Elected |
| T. L. Norval | 1894 | 1896 | Seat II | Elected |
| Alfred M. Post | 1896 | 1898 | Seat I | Elected |
| T. O. C. Harrison | 1898 | 1900 | Seat III | Elected |
| T. L. Norval | 1900 | 1902 | Seat II | Elected |
| John Joseph Sullivan | 1902 | 1904 | Seat I | Elected |
| Silas A. Holcomb | 1904 | 1906 | Seat III | Elected |
| Samuel H. Sedgwick | 1906 | 1908 | Seat II | Elected |
| John B. Barnes | 1908 | 1909 | Seat I | Elected |
| Manoah B. Reese | 1909 | 1915 | At Large | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Conrad Hollenbeck | 1915 | 1915 | At Large | John H. Morehead |
| Jacob Fawcett | 1915 | 1915 | At Large | (pro tempore) |
| Andrew M. Morrissey | 1915 | 1927 | At Large | John H. Morehead |
| Charles A. Goss | 1927 | 1938 | At Large | Adam McMullen |
| Robert G. Simmons | 1939 | 1963 | At Large | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| Paul W. White | 1963 | 1978 | At Large | Frank Morrison |
| Harry A. Spencer | 1978 | 1978 | At Large | (pro tempore) |
| Norman Krivosha | 1978 | 1987 | At Large | Jim Exon |
| William C. Hastings | 1987 | 1995 | At Large | Kay Orr |
| C. Thomas White | 1995 | 1998 | At Large | Ben Nelson |
| John V. Hendry | 1998 | 2006 | At Large |
| Michael Heavican | 2006 | 2024 | At Large | Dave Heineman |
| Jeffrey J. Funke | 2024 | Incumbent | At Large | Jim Pillen |

## All State Supreme Court justices

Indicates Service as Chief Justice for All or Part of Tenure
| Judge | Began service | Ended service | Seat/district | Appointed by |
| William A. Little | - | - | Seat I | Elected |
| Oliver P. Mason | 1867 | 1873 | Seat I | Elected |
| George B. Lake | 1867 | 1884 | Seat II | Elected |
| Lorenzo Crounse | 1867 | 1873 | Seat III | Elected |
| Daniel Gantt | 1873 | 1878 | Seat I | Elected |
| Samuel Maxwell | 1873 | 1894 | Seat III | Elected |
| Amasa Cobb | 1878 | 1892 | Seat I | Elected |
| Manoah B. Reese | 1884 | 1890 | Seat II | Elected |
| T. L. Norval | 1890 | 1902 | Seat II | Elected |
| Alfred M. Post | 1892 | 1898 | Seat I | Elected |
| T. O. C. Harrison | 1894 | 1900 | Seat III | Elected |
| John Joseph Sullivan | 1898 | 1904 | Seat I | Elected |
| Silas A. Holcomb | 1900 | 1906 | Seat III | Elected |
| Samuel H. Sedgwick | 1902 | 1908 | Seat II | Elected |
| John B. Barnes | 1904 | 1909 | Seat I | Elected |
| Charles B. Letton | 1906 | 1925 | Seat III / District 3 | Elected / Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Manoah B. Reese | 1908 | 1915 | Seat II / CJ | Elected / Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| James R. Dean | 1909 | 1910 | District 2 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Jesse L. Root | 1909 | 1911 | District 5 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Jacob Fawcett | 1909 | 1917 | District 6 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| William B. Rose | 1909 | 1943 | District 1 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| John B. Barnes | 1909 | 1917 | District 4 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Samuel H. Sedgwick | 1910 | 1919 | District 2 | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Francis G. Hamer | 1911 | 1918 | District 5 | Chester H. Aldrich |
| Conrad Hollenbeck | 1915 | 1915 | CJ | John H. Morehead |
| Andrew M. Morrissey | 1915 | 1927 | CJ | John H. Morehead |
| Albert J. Cornish | 1917 | 1920 | District 4 | Keith Neville |
| James R. Dean | 1917 | 1935 | District 6 | Keith Neville |
| Chester Hardy Aldrich | 1918 | 1924 | District 5 | Keith Neville |
| Leonard A. Flansburg | 1920 | 1923 | District 4 | Samuel R. McKelvie |
| George A. Day | 1920 | 1927 | District 2 | Samuel R. McKelvie |
| Edward E. Good | 1923 | 1937 | District 4 | Charles Bryan |
| William Henry Thompson | 1924 | 1931 | District 5 | Charles Bryan |
| Robert E. Evans | 1925 | 1925 | District 3 | Adam McMullen |
| George A. Eberly | 1925 | 1943 | District 3 | Adam McMullen |
| Charles A. Goss | 1927 | 1938 | CJ | Adam McMullen |
| Francis S. Howell | 1928 | 1929 | District 2 | Adam McMullen |
| L. B. Day | 1929 | 1938 | District 2 | Arthur J. Weaver |
| Bayard H. Paine | 1931 | 1949 | District 5 | Charles Bryan |
| Edward F. Carter | 1935 | 1971 | District 6 | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| Frederick Messmore | 1937 | 1965 | District 4 | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| Harvey M. Johnsen | 1939 | 1940 | District 2 | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| Robert G. Simmons | 1939 | 1963 | CJ | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| John W. Yeager | 1941 | 1965 | District 2 | Robert Leroy Cochran |
| E. B. Chappell | 1943 | 1961 | District 1 | Dwight Griswold |
| Adolph E. Wenke | 1943 | 1961 | District 3 | Dwight Griswold |
| P. E. Boslaugh | 1949 | 1961 | District 5 | Val Peterson |
| Harry A. Spencer | 1961 | 1979 | District 1 | Frank Morrison |
| Leslie Boslaugh | 1961 | 1994 | District 5 | Frank Morrison |
| Robert C. Brower | 1961 | 1967 | District 3 | Frank Morrison |
| Paul W. White | 1963 | 1978 | CJ | Frank Morrison |
| Hale McCown | 1965 | 1983 | District 4 | Frank Morrison |
| Robert L. Smith | 1965 | 1973 | District 2 | Frank Morrison |
| John E. Newton | 1967 | 1977 | District 3 | Norbert Tiemann |
| Lawrence M. Clinton | 1971 | 1982 | District 6 | Jim Exon |
| Donald Brodkey | 1974 | 1982 | District 2 | Jim Exon |
| C. Thomas White | 1977 | 1998 | District 3 / CJ | Jim Exon / Ben Nelson |
| Norman Krivosha | 1978 | 1987 | CJ | Jim Exon |
| William C. Hastings | 1979 | 1995 | District 1 / CJ | Charles Thone / Kay Orr |
| D. Nick Caporale | 1982 | 1998 | District 2 | Charles Thone |
| Thomas M. Shanahan | 1983 | 1993 | District 6 | Bob Kerrey |
| John T. Grant | 1983 | 1993 | District 4 | Bob Kerrey |
| Dale E. Fahrnbruch | 1987 | 1996 | District 1 | Kay Orr |
| David J. Lanphier | 1993 | 1997 | District 4 | Ben Nelson |
| John F. Wright | 1994 | 2018 | District 6 | Ben Nelson |
| William M. Connolly | 1994 | 2016 | District 5 | Ben Nelson |
| John M. Gerrard | 1995 | 2012 | District 3 | Ben Nelson |
| Kenneth C. Stephan | 1997 | 2015 | District 1 | Ben Nelson |
| Michael McCormack | 1997 | 2016 | District 4 | Ben Nelson |
| John V. Hendry | 1998 | 2006 | CJ | Ben Nelson |
| Lindsey Miller-Lerman | 1998 | Incumbent | District 2 | Ben Nelson |
| Michael G. Heavican | 2006 | 2024 | CJ | Dave Heineman |
| William B. Cassel | 2012 | Incumbent | District 3 | Dave Heineman |
| Stephanie F. Stacy | 2015 | Incumbent | District 1 | Pete Ricketts |
| Max J. Kelch | 2016 | 2018 | District 4 | Pete Ricketts |
| Jeffrey J. Funke | 2016 | Incumbent | District 5 / CJ | Pete Ricketts / Jim Pillen |
| Jonathan Papik | 2018 | Incumbent | District 4 | Pete Ricketts |
| John Freudenberg | 2018 | Incumbent | District 6 | Pete Ricketts |
| Jason Bergevin | 2025 | Incumbent | District 5 | Jim Pillen |
Information Gathered from Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court, the Nebraska Blue Book, and History of Nebraska By Morton & Watkins