Las Vegas Review-Journal - Judging the Judges

2011 Report
A biennial survey of local attorneys rating judges & Supreme Court justices

Editor's note: A total of 872 respondents completed online evaluation ballots and were qualified to be included in the statistical calculations and results in this biennial survey conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The survey has been published every other year since 1992 as a public service. The timing of this survey changed this year because the filing period for judicial candidates has been moved to January. The survey was conducted in November 2011 to allow these stories, which have been published in the spring in years past, to publish ahead of the candidate filing period.

Survey Results
Supreme | Civil/Criminal | Family | Justice | Municipal
 

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Download .PDF of survey of local attorneys rating Supreme Court justices.
(Due to rounding conventions, some percentages of "less than adequate," "adequate" and "more than adequate" scores may total slightly less or more than 100 percent.)

Justices
Michael A. Cherry
Michael Douglas
Mark Gibbons
James W. Hardesty
Ron D. Parraguirre
Kristina Pickering
Nancy M. Saitta

Download .PDF of survey of local attorneys rating Clark County judges.
(Due to rounding conventions, some percentages of "less than adequate," "adequate" and "more than adequate" scores may total slightly less or more than 100 percent.)

Judges
Valerie Adair
Nancy L. Allf
Rob Bare
David Barker
Linda M. Bell
James Bixler
Elissa F. Cadish
Kenneth C. Cory
Kathleen E. Delaney
Mark R. Denton
Allan R. Earl
Jackie Glass
Elizabeth Gonzalez
Kathy A. Hardcastle
Douglas W. Herndon
Ronald J. Israel
Susan H. Johnson
Joanna S. Kishner
Michelle Leavitt
Stefany A. Miley
Donald M. Mosley
Susan W. Scann
Abbi Silver
Douglas Smith
Gloria J. Sturman
Jerome T. Tao
Jennifer P. Togliatti
Valorie J. Vega
Michael P. Villani
Jessie Walsh
Jerry A. Wiese
Timothy C. Williams

Download .PDF of survey of local attorneys rating Clark County judges.
(Due to rounding conventions, some percentages of "less than adequate," "adequate" and "more than adequate" scores may total slightly less or more than 100 percent.)

Judges
Bryce C. Duckworth
Jennifer L. Elliott
Cynthia N. Giuliani
William B. Gonzalez
Mathew Harter
Bill Henderson
Charles J. Hoskin
Steven E. Jones
Cheryl B. Moss
Gayle Nathan
Vincent Ochoa
Kenneth E. Pollock
Sandra L. Pomrenze
William S. Potter
T. Arthur Ritchie, Jr.
Gloria S. Sanchez
Cynthia Dianne Steel
Frank P. Sullivan
Robert W. Teuton
William O. Voy

Download .PDF of survey of local attorneys rating Clark County justices of the peace.
(Due to rounding conventions, some percentages of "less than adequate," "adequate" and "more than adequate" scores may total slightly less or more than 100 percent.)

Justices of the Peace

Las Vegas Township
Suzan Baucum
Karen Bennett
Joe Bonaventure
Eric A. Goodman
Conrad Hafen
William D. Jansen
William Kephart
Deborah J. Lippis
Janiece Marshall
Melissa Saragosa
Joseph Sciscento
Diana L. Sullivan
Melanie Tobiasson
Ann E. Zimmerman

Henderson Township
Rodney Burr
Stephen George
David Gibson, Sr.

North Las Vegas Township
Stephen J. Dahl
Chris Lee
NatalieTyrrell

Download .PDF of survey of local attorneys rating of local municipal courts.
(Due to rounding conventions, some percentages of "less than adequate," "adequate" and "more than adequate" scores may total slightly less or more than 100 percent.)

Judges

Las Vegas Municipal Court
Heidi Almase
Bert M. Brown
Martin D. Hastings
Cedric A. Kerns
Cynthia S. Leung
Susan Roger

Henderson Municipal Court
Diana D. Hampton
Douglas Hedger
Mark Stevens

North Las Vegas Municipal Court
Sean Hoeffgen
Catherine Ramsey