Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection Accepting Applications for Open Judicial District Court Seats
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:30am
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection (Commission) announced that it will accept applications for three open judicial positions until 5 p.m. January 28, 2015. The vacancies are the result of the appointments of Judges Michael P. Gibbons, Abbi Silver, and Jerome T. Tao to the Nevada Court of Appeals creating two vacancies in the Eighth and one in the Ninth Judicial District Courts.
The appointment process is open to all Nevada attorneys with 10 years of legal experience, including two years in Nevada. Applications may be submitted to the AOC in Carson City or Las Vegas according to application instructions. The applications for these vacancies are available at: http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/index.php/judicialselection.
Applicants must submit a hard copy of a completed application to the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) by 5 p.m. on January 28, 2015. The application must specify the open seat sought by the applicant. Under rule amendments recently approved by the Commission, applications that are filed late or are incomplete will be rejected.
Interviews to fill the vacancy in the Ninth Judicial District are tentatively scheduled for the week of February 23, at the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City, and will be open to the public.
Interviews to fill the two vacant positions in the Eighth Judicial District are tentatively scheduled for the week of March 16, at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, and will be open to the public.
The public will be able to view the applications, with the exceptions of medical records and personal identification information, on the Supreme Court website within a day or two following the application deadline. Also remaining confidential will be the letters of comment solicited about the candidates, along with letters of reference to ensure the authors can be candid.
Following the application deadline, the Commission will conduct background investigations and interview each of the applicants. The Commission will then deliberate and nominate three finalists, whose names will be submitted to Governor Brian Sandoval for the appointment.
The Commission is composed of seven permanent members – the Supreme Court Chief Justice, three non-attorneys appointed by the Governor, and three attorneys appointed by the State Bar of Nevada. Neither the Governor nor the State Bar may appoint more than two permanent members from the same political party, and cannot appoint two members from the same county.
For District Court vacancies, two temporary members are appointed from the judicial district where the vacancy occurs – a non-attorney by the Governor and an attorney by the State Bar – bringing the Commission membership to nine.
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