Milton Benjamin Badt

{{Short description|American judge (1884–1966)}}

{{Infobox judge

| name = Milton Benjamin Badt

| office = Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada

| term_start = March 26, 1947

| term_end = April 2, 1966

| predecessor = Errol James Livingston Taber

| successor = Jon R. Collins

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|11|29}}

| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|4|2|1884|11|29}}

| death_place =

| spouse = Gertrude

| children = 2

| profession = Judge

}}

Milton Benjamin Badt (1884 – April 2, 1966{{cite web |title=Nevada State Journal Newspaper Archives, Apr 3, 1966, p. 1 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/nevada-state-journal-apr-03-1966-p-1/ |website=NewspaperArchive.com |access-date=8 May 2020 |language=en |date=3 April 1966}}) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1947 to 1966.{{cite web |title=Nevada State Journal Archives, Feb 11, 1947, p. 12 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/nevada-state-journal-feb-11-1947-p-12/ |website=NewspaperArchive.com |access-date=8 May 2020 |language=en |date=11 February 1947}}

His family was Orthodox Jewish and his father immigrated from Polish Prussia. Badt was born in San Francisco and studied in California but established his practice in Elko, Nevada, where his parents lived. He had a wife Gertrude and two children. He was a Republican.{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/milton-badt|title=Milton Badt | ONE|website=www.onlinenevada.org}}

He was appointed March 26, 1947 to fill E. L. J. Taber's vacancy and elected November 1948 to fulfill the rest of his unexpired term{{Cite web|url=http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=945&Itemid=418/|title=The Nevada Supreme Court|date=March 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319204937/http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=945&Itemid=418/|archive-date=2012-03-19}}

Badt suffered a heart attack in March 1966 at the age of 81, and died the following month.{{cite web |title=Las Vegas Sun Newspaper Archives, Apr 2, 1966, p. 3 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/las-vegas-sun-apr-02-1966-p-3/ |website=NewspaperArchive.com |access-date=8 May 2020 |language=en |date=2 April 1966}} Jon R. Collins was appointed June 5, 1966 to succeed him.