Jonathan Papik

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Jonathan Papik
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Nonpartisan

Nebraska Supreme Court District 4
Tenure

2018 - Present

Term ends

2029

Years in position

6

Compensation

Base salary

$225,055

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Appointed

March 21, 2018

Education

Bachelor's

Northwestern College, 2004

Law

Harvard Law School, 2008

Contact

Official website 

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Jonathan Papik is a judge for District 4 of the Nebraska Supreme Court. He assumed office in 2018. His current term ends on January 4, 2029.

Papik ran for re-election for the District 4 judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court. He won in the retention election on November 8, 2022.

Papik was appointed by Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on March 21, 2018, following the resignation of Justice Max Kelch.[1] To read more about judicial selection in Nebraska, click here.

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[2] Papik received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.

Before his appointment to the state supreme court, Papik clerked for Judge Neil Gorsuch on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Judge Laurence Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 2010 to 2018, he was an attorney with Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather in Omaha, Nebraska.[4]

At the time of his appointment, Papik was 36 years old, making him the youngest person to ever serve on the Nebraska Supreme Court.[5]

Biography

Papik was born on January 7, 1982.[6] He received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2004 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2008.[4]

Following his graduation from law school, Papik clerked for Judge Neil Gorsuch on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2008 to 2009 and for Judge Laurence Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2009 to 2010. Following his clerkships, Papik joined the law firm Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather in Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked as an attorney until his appointment to the Nebraska Supreme Court in 2018.[4]

Elections

The section below details Papik's judicial appointments and retention elections throughout his career.

Nebraska Supreme Court (2018-present)

Gov. Pete Ricketts appointed Papik to the Nebraska Supreme Court on March 21, 2018, following the resignation of Justice Max Kelch.[1]

2022

See also:  Nebraska Supreme Court elections, 2022

Nebraska Supreme Court District 4, Jonathan Papik's seat

Jonathan Papik was retained to District 4 of the Nebraska Supreme Court on November 8, 2022 with 66.9% of the vote.

Retention
 Vote
%
Votes
✔
Yes
 
66.9
 
 53,844
No
 
33.1
 
 26,586
Total Votes
 80,430

It has been certified. Source


Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Jonathan Papik did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Analysis

Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)

See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters

Last updated: June 15, 2020

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.

The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[7]

The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:

  • Strong Democrat
  • Mild Democrat
  • Indeterminate[8]
  • Mild Republican
  • Strong Republican

This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.

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Jonathan
Papik

Nebraska

  • Partisan Confidence Score:
    Mild Republican
  • Judicial Selection Method:
    Assisted appointment through hybrid judicial nominating commission
  • Key Factors:
    • Was a registered Republican as of 2020
    • Appointed by a Republican governor
    • State was a Republican trifecta at time of appointment


Partisan Profile

Details:

Papik was a registered Republican as of 2020. He was appointed by Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) in 2018 when Nebraska was a Republican trifecta.


State supreme court judicial selection in Nebraska

See also: Judicial selection in Nebraska

The seven justices on the Nebraska Supreme Court are selected through the assisted appointment method. The governor appoints each new justice from a list of at least two qualified nominees assembled by a judicial nominating commission.[9][10] There are separate judicial nominating commissions for each supreme court district, as well as the chief justiceship. Each commission is made up of nine members. Members of the Nebraska State Bar Association select four lawyers and the governor appoints four nonlawyers. The ninth member is a supreme court justice who serves as chairman but does not vote.[10][11]

Justices must run in a yes-no retention election during the first general election occurring after they have been on the court for three years. Subsequent terms last six years.[12]

Qualifications

To serve on the Nebraska Supreme Court, a person must:

  • be at least 30 years old;
  • be a U.S. citizen;
  • have practiced law in Nebraska for at least five years;
  • be a member of the state bar; and
  • be a resident of the judicial district for which they are being appointed.[13]

Chief justice

The chief justice of the supreme court is selected through the same assisted appointment method as other justices on the court and serves in that role for the duration of his or her time on the court.[14]

Vacancies

See also: How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts

When a vacancy occurs on the Nebraska Supreme Court, a judicial nominating commission submits the names of at least two qualified nominees to the governor, who appoints one to fill the vacancy. If the governor does not appoint one of the nominees within 60 days, the chief justice of the supreme court is authorized to select a new judge.[12]

The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.


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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Governor of Nebraska, "Gov. Ricketts Appoints Jonathan J. Papik to the Supreme Court," March 21, 2018
    2. ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
    3. ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 State of Nebraska Judicial Branch, "Hon. Jonathan J. Papik," accessed June 30, 2021
    5. ↑ Omaha World-Herald, "Neil Gorsuch swears in youngest person to ever serve on Nebraska Supreme Court," May 9, 2018
    6. ↑ FamousBirthdays.io, "Jonathan Papik," accessed June 30, 2021
    7. ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
    8. ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
    9. ↑ National Center for State Courts, "Judicial Selection in the States: Nebraska⁠ | Overview," accessed August 16, 2021
    10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 National Center for State Courts, "Judicial Selection in the States: Nebraska⁠ | Judicial Nominating Commissions," accessed August 16, 2021
    11. ↑ Nebraska Legislature, "Nebraska State Constitution Article V-21," accessed August 16, 2021
    12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 State of Nebraska Judicial Branch, "Branch Overview," accessed August 16, 2021
    13. ↑ Nebraska Legislature, "Nebraska Revised Statute 24-202," accessed August 16, 2021
    14. ↑ National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Nebraska," accessed August 16, 2021
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