Edgar Eather (September 14, 1886 – September 1, 1968) was a justice of the
Supreme Court of Nevada
The Supreme Court of Nevada is the highest state court of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the head of the Nevada Judiciary. The main constitutional function of the Supreme Court is to review appeals made directly from the decisions of the distri ...
from 1946 to 1958.
Born in
Eureka, Nevada
Eureka is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in and the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada, United States. Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : H. Keller, 1879. With a population of 414 as of the 2020 United States ...
, Eather served as
Eureka County recorder and auditor from 1911 to 1922.
["Edgar Eather", ''Reno Gazette-Journal'' (September 3, 1968), p. 22.] In June 1922, he was elected to the Nevada
Republican State Committee. Later in 1922, he was elected Eureka County district attorney, taking office on January 2, 1923.
["Officers Arrive For Prisoners", ''Reno Gazette-Journal'' (January 3, 1923), p. 8.] His first act in office was to travel to
Reno, Nevada
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, ...
, with the Eureka County sheriff to take custody of two suspects in the murder of a prohibition enforcement officer.
In the fall of 1923, Eather was offered an appointment as second assistant United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, but ultimately declined the appointment to remain in his state office.
["United States Attorney George Springmeyer", ''Reno Gazette-Journal'' (December 8, 1923), p. 6.]
Eather was appointed to a vacant Nevada state district court seat in 1929, and was reelected in 1930, 1934, 1938, and 1942.
["Edgar Eather New Supreme Court Justice", ''Nevada State Journal'' (September 6, 1946), p. 12.] He opted not to run for reelection in 1946, and considered running for a seat on the state supreme court, but chose not to, and rebuffed a movement to draft him into the election. However, following the death of Justice
, Governor
Vail M. Pittman appointed Eather to that vacancy.
Eather retired from the supreme court on December 15, 1958.
Eather married Rose Tognini in November 1918, with whom he had four daughters. Eather died in a hospital in Reno at the age of 81.
References
1886 births
1968 deaths
People from Eureka, Nevada
Justices of the Supreme Court of Nevada
Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Nevada
20th-century American judges
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