Melanie Brantingham has announced that she intends to file for election for District Attorney in Storey County. Melanie is currently a Supervising Deputy District Attorney with the Carson City District Attorney’s Office, having been a prosecutor in that office for over 18 years.
She has prosecuted everything from minor traffic offenses to homicides, including a significant number of child sex crimes, high level narcotics crimes and violent crimes. As a prosecutor, she has taken approximately 30 cases to jury trial.
While in the District Attorney’s Office, Melanie has been assigned to various roles, including juvenile and adult criminal prosecution, handling all stages of prosecution from the initial filing through trial and appeal. She has been assigned as the advisor for the K9 Unit of the Sheriff’s Office, the Tri-Net Narcotics Task Force, and has been assigned to be “on-call,” providing advice to law enforcement, assisting in obtaining search warrants and responding to critical incidents 24 hours a day. She has provided trainings to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, Nevada Police Officers Standards Training (POST), and the Nevada State Police Academy. In 2011, Melanie attended the Western Nevada State Peace Officer Academy, graduating as a valedictorian. “In Carson City, I have worked diligently to maintain open communication with the Sheriff’s Office so we can build solid cases for successful prosecution, seek justice for victims and promote public safety. I want to support law enforcement in Storey County so we can have similar successes,” says Brantingham.
Melanie began her career in law at 15 years old, and continued that work while she finished high school, and went to college and law school. Melanie graduated from UNLV and went on to obtain her Juris Doctorate from Boyd School of Law, in Las Vegas in 2004. She began her practice in Las Vegas, becoming an associate attorney in a general practice, handling, as she describes it, “everything that walked in the door.”
In 2006, Melanie made the decision that she did not want to raise her family in Las Vegas. She moved to Northern Nevada and lived in Carson City for approximately 7 years before moving to Dayton in 2013. She also embarked on her career in public service in 2006, taking a position as a Deputy Attorney General with the Nevada Attorney General’s Office in the Litigation Division, representing the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Melanie says about her career, “I love the law, and I want to use this love to serve Storey County. As District Attorney for Storey County, I look forward to building a collaborative working relationship with the Storey County Sheriff’s Office for the efficient and effective prosecution of criminal cases, maintaining open lines of communication with victims and members of the public, obtaining justice for victims of crime, and ensuring that Storey County is a safe and desirable place to visit, work and call home.”
For more information, contact Melanie Brantingham at melaniebrantingham4storeyda@gmail.com or 775-241-8820.
