If a position becomes vacant, the judicial nominating commission, made up of four lawyers and four non-lawyers, holds a hearing to select potential candidates.

The districts mostly follow county lines and are redrawn decennially after the census results are finalized.

District 3 consists of Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Holt, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Thurston, Washington, Wayne, and Wheeler counties as well as parts of Douglas and Sarpy counties.

District 5 consists of Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax, Fillmore, Gage, Hall, Hamilton, Jefferson, Johnson, Merrick, Nance, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Platte, Polk, Richardson, Saline, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, Webster, and York counties.

District 6 consists of Adams, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Buffalo, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Garden, Garfield, Greeley, Gosper, Grant, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Hooker, Howard, Kearney, Keith, Keya Paha, Kimball, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Morrill, Perkins, Phelps, Red Willow, Rock, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Thomas, and Valley counties.

Fifteen male judges comprised the bench of the Territorial Supreme Court.

Currently the Nebraska Supreme Court justices are elected by way of a modified Missouri Plan.

As a solution the Nebraska Supreme Court was allowed to elect commissioners to assist with the workload.

Even with the efforts to increase the time efficiency of the Supreme Court the docket remained over filled.

The case was the result of a Gubernatorial Election in which Omaha Democrat James Boyd claimed victory.

Boyd's father, an immigrant, obtained citizenship after his son reached the age of majority.

[5] Robert G. Simmons was the longest-serving chief justice in the history of the Nebraska Supreme Court as of 2025.

His early career paths included Scotts Bluff County Attorney, a lieutenant in the army, and was elected to congress as a Republican.

This case addressed the legitimacy of a murder charge in regard to an unborn child.

The court unanimously ruled that a child who is still within the womb of the mother has no claim to life.

Chief Justice Simmons retired on January 2, 1963 after serving on the bench for slightly over twenty five years.