United States District Court for the District of Nevada

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The United States District Court for the District of Nevada is the United States district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Nevada. The court has locations in Las Vegas and Reno.

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Steven Myhre. When decisions of the court are appealed, they are appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based in Downtown San Fransisco at the James R. Browing Federal Courthouse, but hears initial appeals at the Richard Chambers Federal Courthouse in Pasadena, CA

Courthouses

Las Vegas

The Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse is the home for the district court in Las Vegas. The building of the courthouse was completed in 2002 and was the first federal building built to comply with the post-Oklahoma City blast resistance requirements.

Las Vegas courthouse shooting

On January 4, 2010, a shooting happened at the Lloyd George federal courthouse in Las Vegas in where the gunman and the security officer were killed. The shooting happened at 8:00 AM-Pacific Standard Time in the courthouse's main lobby. The gunman who was killed in the case was Johnnie Lee Wicks. Wicks filed a racial discrimination case in 2008 against the Social Security Administration^[1].

Judges

Article III judges

See: Article III federal judge

• Chief Judge Roger Hunt Las Vegas
• Kent Dawson Las Vegas
• Larry Hicks Reno
• Robert C. Jones Las Vegas
• James Mahan Las Vegas
• Philip Pro Las Vegas
• Vacancy (Gloria M. Navarro nominee)

• Nominated by Ronald Reagan: Phil Pro
• Nominated by Bill Clinton: Roger Hunt, Kent Dawson
• Nominated by George W. Bush: Larry Hicks, Robert C. Jones, James Mahan, Brian Sandoval

Senior judges

• Llloyd George Las Vegas
• Howard McKibben Reno
• Edward Reed Reno

Magistrate judges

• Valerie Cooke Reno
• George Foley Las Vegas
• Robert J. Johnston Las Vegas
• Lawrence Leavitt Las Vegas
• Peggy Leen Las Vegas
• Robert McQuaid, Jr. Reno

External links

• United States District Court - District of Nevada
• US Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada
• Judges of the District of Nevada
• Opinions of the District of Nevada

References

Portions of this article have been taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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	v • d • e Federal judges of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Active judges	Dawson • Hicks • Hunt • Jones • Mahan • Pro • Vacancy
Senior judges	George • McKibben • Reed
Magistrate judges	Leavitt • Johnston • Leen • Foley • McQuaid • Cooke
Former judges	Baldwin • Claiborne • Farrington • Foley • R.T. Foley • Hagen • Hawley • Hillyer • Norcross • Rawlinson • Ross • Sabin • Sandoval • Thompson