Gov. Joe Lombardo announced Wednesday that helium was appointing a authoritative to the Clark County District Court spot formally occupied by a arguable judge.
Colleen Brown, who is already moving unopposed, volition statesman her assignment to Department 24 connected June 29, according to a quality merchandise from the governor’s office.
A longtime prosecutor, Brown oversees the large fraud and elder maltreatment portion successful the Clark County territory attorney’s office.
“Colleen Brown has built a distinguished ineligible vocation rooted successful nationalist service, leadership, and courtroom advocacy,” Lombardo said successful the release. “Her extended acquisition crossed aggregate divisions has provided her with a broad knowing of Nevada’s transgression justness strategy astatine some the proceedings and appellate levels, and I americium assured successful her quality to service efficaciously successful this judicial seat.”
District Judge Erika Ballou resigned from the seat successful May, clearing the mode for the appointment.
Ballou was suspended without pay for six months successful September.
The punishment stemmed from a lawsuit successful which she was accused of defying the Nevada Supreme Court by releasing a captive and not ordering the captive to beryllium taken backmost into custody erstwhile the precocious tribunal reversed her determination connected appeal.
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