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The Nevada Attorney General is the chief legal officer for the U.S. state of Nevada.The functions of the office are set forth in Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 228.The Attorney General represents the people of Nevada in civil and criminal matters before trial, appellate and the supreme courts of Nevada and the United States.
The governor of Nevada is the head of government of the U.S. state of Nevada. [2] The governor is the head of the executive branch of the Nevada state government.The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [3]
[1] [2] [3] She was the third woman elected as student body president at the University of Nevada, Reno. She was an associate at the law office of Lesley B. Gray in Reno, Nevada , between 1975 and 1978, a partner at the law offices of Thornton and Del Papa between 1979 and 1984, and worked in private practice in Reno between 1984 and 1987.
Adam Paul Laxalt (/ ˈ l æ k s ɔː l t / LAK-sawlt; born August 31, 1978 [1]) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's unsuccessful nominee for governor of Nevada in 2018 and for the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Janet Reno, the first woman U.S. attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President Bill Clinton, has died at 78, according to media reports.
Edna C. Plummer (1907): [4] [22] First female District Attorney of Eureka County, Nevada (1918) Gemma Greene Waldron: [49] First African American female lawyer in Reno, Nevada [Washoe County, Nevada] Deborah A. Agosti and Robin A. Wright: [50] [51] [52] First females elected as Judges of the Washoe County District Court (1985)
Twenty-six Republican attorneys general filed lawsuits Wednesday challenging a new Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers across the United States to run background checks on buyers ...
The Nevada general election, 2014 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, throughout Nevada.. The active political parties participated in the 2014 election were the two major political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as well as the minor political parties of the Independent American Party of Nevada, the Nevada Green Party, and the Libertarian Party of Nevada.