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Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer and public official who served as the first female and 78th United States attorney general. Reno, a member of the Democratic Party , held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt .
First Hispanic American female (district court): Valorie Vega in 1999 [15] First openly lesbian female (Nevada Supreme Court): Lidia S. Stiglich (2008) in 2016 [16] First African American female (state court): Tierra Jones in 2017 [17] [18] First female (Chief Judge; Nevada Court of Appeals): Abbi Silver (1990) in 2017 [19]
Brent Thomas Adams (June 3, 1948 - November 2, 2022) was an American judge in Nevada's Second Judicial District, located in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada.He served for 25 years, eventually becoming Chief Judge of that court.
[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.
Hicks was nominated to the U.S. District Court for Nevada in 2001 by Republican President George W. Bush and was sworn in shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. He continued to hear cases after ...
On September 17, 2020, Sandoval was named as UNR's 17th president (following Marc Johnson). He is considered an unusual choice because his background does not include any experience in higher education administration. [2] He is the first Hispanic president of the university, [2] as well as the first alumnus of the University to serve as its ...
United States District Court judge Larry R. Hicks was hit by a car and killed outside the federal courthouse in Reno, Nevada, on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. He was 80.
The mystery client who hired a detective to secretly track Reno's mayor with a GPS device is trying to persuade Nevada's Supreme Court he has a First Amendment right to remain anonymous, a ...