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Addeliar Dell Guy (1957): [3] [5] First African American male to serve as a Deputy District Attorney in Clark County, Nevada (1966) and Judge of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Dept. XI (1975) John F. Mendoza (1951): [1] [2] First Hispanic American male to serve as a Justice of the Peace (1955-1957) for the Las Vegas Township, City Attorney ...
Each of Nevada's counties and its independent city are divided into one or more townships, [14] [15] and each township has a justice court. [16] The justice courts are courts of limited jurisdiction that hear only minor cases; in general, they hear misdemeanor cases (including traffic tickets), [ a ] and civil cases involving $15,000 or less ...
The headquarters of the Supreme Court of Nevada in Carson City. Supreme Court of Nevada [1] Nevada Court of Appeals [2] District Courts of Nevada (11 districts) [3] Municipal Courts of Nevada [4] Justice Courts of Nevada [5] Federal courts located in Nevada. United States District Court for the District of Nevada [6]
Sixth Judicial District – Humboldt County. 1 judge. Seventh Judicial District – Eureka County, Lincoln County, and White Pine County. 2 judges. Eighth Judicial District – Clark County (serves the Las Vegas metropolitan area and is the largest of the judicial districts). 52 judges (20 family court, 32 civil/criminal court).
The Chief Justice rotates on the Supreme Court of Nevada, almost always to a judge who is in their final two years of their term. Following the expansions of the court in 1967 and 1999, judges began to split what had traditionally been a two-year term between two or three justices, allowing each justice the opportunity to be Chief Justice during their six-year term.
The court's secondary courthouse in Las Vegas, which it shares with the Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, the state supreme court continued to lobby the people and the legislature of the state of Nevada to create an intermediate appellate court. The Legislature eventually authorized the latest attempt to appear on the November 2, 2010 ballot.
Las Vegas: 1971 2013–present — — Obama: 28 District Judge Richard F. Boulware: Las Vegas: 1968 2014–present — — Obama: 29 District Judge Anne Traum: Reno: 1969 2022–present — — Biden: 30 District Judge Cristina D. Silva: Las Vegas: 1979 2022–present — — Biden: 14 Senior Judge Howard D. McKibben: Reno: 1940 1984–2005 ...
In 1994, Gibbons was elected to the Ninth Judicial District Court. He was reelected four consecutive times. In December 2014, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. [1] In March 2019, Gibbons replaced judge Abbi Silver as chief judge. [2] Gibbons is the brother of former Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court Mark Gibbons. [3]