Courts & rulings
Nevada · highest court
Supreme Court of Nevada
Elected (nonpartisan)
Chief: The most senior justice (by service) who has not recently served becomes chief justice for a two-year term; ties broken by lot or internal agreement.
Justices
All judges & justices →- Douglas W. Herndon
- Ron D. Parraguirre
- Kristina Pickering
- Lidia S. Stiglich
- Elissa F. Cadish
- Patricia Lee
- Linda Marie Bell
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Constitution of the State of Nevada
Adopted 1864. Its declaration of rights sits in Article 1 (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Nevada constitution means.
Interstitial, departs when state-specific factors justify it
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).