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The Supreme Court of Nevada is the state supreme court, the state's highest appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of seven justices; the longest-serving member is the Chief Justice, and the rest are associate justices. [1] [2] Each justice is elected statewide for a six-year term. [1]
Bryan K. Scott (1991): [26] [27] First African American male to serve as the President of the Clark County Bar Association, Nevada; Fidel Salcedo: [28] First Latino American male to serve as a Justice of the Peace in Reno, Nevada [Washoe County, Nevada] David Dean (1974): [29] First African American male lawyer in Reno, Nevada [Washoe County ...
Michele Ann Fiore (born July 29, 1970) is an American Republican politician who served as a justice of the peace for Nye County from her appointment to the position by the Nye County Commission in December 2022 until her suspension in July 2024 after a grand jury indicted her on seven federal counts, six for wire fraud and one conspiracy charge.
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.
Agosti served less than one year as a deputy public defender in Montgomery County, Ohio before moving to Nevada. [2] In Reno, Agosti worked for the Senior Citizens Legal Assistance Program from 1977 to 1979. She then worked as a deputy district attorney. Agosti was elected as the first female Justice of the Peace in Reno in 1983.
Miriam Shearing (1969): [9] First female elected Justice of the Peace in Las Vegas, Nevada (Clark County, Nevada; 1976) [4] Camara Banfield: [39] First African American (female) to serve as a Judge of the Clark County Superior Court (2021) Tsering Cornell: [40] [41] First Asian American (female of Tibetan descent) judge in Clark County, Nevada ...
This was increased to five justices in 1967, and to seven justices in 1997. [ 2 ] Despite experiencing a spectacular population boom in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Nevada was unable for many years to establish an intermediate appellate court, like the vast majority of U.S. states.
A justice of the peace in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, hears a case (1941). A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the same meaning.