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Nevada Commission on Aging; Nevada Commission on Services for Persons with Disabilities; Office of the Community Advocate for Elder Rights; Office of Attorney for the Rights of Older Persons and Persons with a Physical Disability, an Intellectual Disability or a Related Condition; Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman
Judicial officers of all the state's courts are subject to oversight by the Commission on Judicial Discipline. [35] The Commission consists of members appointed by the Supreme Court, the Governor, and the Governors of the State Bar. [35] The commission can impose discipline up to and including removal from office, on grounds of willful ...
The government of Nevada comprises three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the governor of Nevada and the governor's cabinet along with the other elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the Nevada Legislature which includes the Assembly and the Senate; and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of Nevada and lower courts.
A judicial nominating commission (also judicial nominating committee, judicial nominating board) in the United States, is a body used by some U.S. states to recommend or select potential justices and judges for appointments by state governments.
In 2004, Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn appointed Gonzalez to the Clark County District Court. She served as the presiding judge of the civil division from 2004 to 2016, and succeeded David Barker as that district's Chief Judge from 2017 to 2018, after being voted chief judge by the other judges on the 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.
A Nevada judge dismissed an indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential ...
[1] [7] On November 21, 2022, Governor Steve Sisolak appointed Lee as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court to fill the seat left by the resignation of Justice Abbi Silver. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] She is the first African American woman and the first Asian American to serve on the Nevada Supreme Court.