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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.
This is a list of minority attorneys general in the United States. In the United States, an ethnic minority is anyone who has at least one parent who is not of non-Hispanic white descent (such as African Americans , Asian Americans , Pacific Islands Americans , Hispanic and Latino Americans , or Native Americans ).
Charles Edward Springer [2] (February 20, 1928 – February 19, 2019) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1981 to 1997. a two-time candidate for Governor of Nevada, Springer also served as the state's attorney general. Since 2007, Springer has worked at the law firm Kermitt Waters.
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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)
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.
Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford won re-election to a second term in office. As Ford narrowly won Carson City , this was the first time since 2014 that a Democrat had won a county or county-equivalent outside of Clark or Washoe County .
Previously under the Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994, United States Attorney General Janet Reno had Donald Smaltz appointed Independent Counsel by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels Ethics in Government Act of 1978, As Amended, Division 94 ...