Adam Ganz

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Adam Ganz

Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2022

Adam Ganz ran in a special election for the Department 17 judge of the Nevada 8th Judicial District Court. He lost in the special general election on November 8, 2022.

Ganz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Clark County, Nevada (2022)

General election

Special general election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 17

Jennifer Schwartz defeated Adam Ganz and Lindsey Moors in the special general election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 17 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jennifer Schwartz (Nonpartisan)	36.7	204,220
		Adam Ganz (Nonpartisan)	34.0	189,243
	Submit photo	Lindsey Moors (Nonpartisan)	29.3	163,324

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 556,787
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Endorsements

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2020

See also: Municipal elections in Clark County, Nevada (2020)

General election

General election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 3

Monica Trujillo defeated Adam Ganz in the general election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 3 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Monica Trujillo (Nonpartisan)	60.0	457,825
		Adam Ganz (Nonpartisan)	40.0	304,612

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 762,437
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 3

Adam Ganz and Monica Trujillo defeated Michael Miceli in the primary for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 3 on June 9, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Adam Ganz (Nonpartisan)	43.1	119,405
✔		Monica Trujillo (Nonpartisan)	41.9	116,121
	Submit photo	Michael Miceli (Nonpartisan)	15.0	41,575

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 277,101
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Endorsements

To view Ganz's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Adam Ganz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ganz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a proud, lifelong Las Vegas resident who attended public school and graduated from Bonanza. Meanwhile, my grandparents escaped a forced labor camp during WWII and were lucky enough to be sponsored to move to the United States when my father was just a few years old. My parents moved to Vegas in the 70s and worked in the casino industry all their lives. I worked to put myself through college and law school and was the first in my family to attend college. In 1998, I graduated from the USD Law School, began my legal career in Vegas, and married my loving wife, Prudence.

I believe my childhood experiences have guided me toward becoming a Judge. I am passionate about promoting justice, so the judicial system is fair to everyone! In my mind, if you work your hardest at something, you should be rewarded for the effort, but if you can’t get a fair shake because the system is not fair, it falls apart.

In addition to my extensive courtroom and legal experience, I have served on several boards of directors for non-profit organizations and owned or managed several businesses in our community.

After law school, I began my nearly 25-year legal career in civil litigation, where I have represented thousands of people and litigated many issues affecting our community. I focused on complex litigation and trial work. I have litigated matters from road design to defective products such as helicopters or printing presses and also represent child who were abused and neglected.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• I have more judicial experience than all the candidates in my race. I served as a Justice of the Peace Pro Tem, Short Trial Judge, appeared in the Nevada and Arizona Appeals Courts, the Nevada and Arizona Supreme Courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and other US District Courts in Southern Nevada, Northern Nevada, and Arizona. I have tried cases in front of just about every Judge in this community. I have spent thousands of hours in the courtroom over my decades as a lawyer.
• I am ready to serve as your on day one! In 2019, I attended the National Judicial College. Then, in 2020, I continued my training to be a Judge when I became certified as a Mediator at UNLV and later began teaching at UNLV as an adjunct professor. In 2022, I received my Master’s in Law in Dispute Resolutions from Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law. That program was over 1000 hours of training in dispute resolution. In addition, I have done private mediations and arbitrations in hundreds of cases.
• In Clark County, over 3 times the cases filed are civil cases. Neither of my opponents have civil experience, meanwhile, that is all I have done for nearly 25 years. I focused on complex litigation and trial work and I am ready day one to serve you. You are more than 3 times likely to encounter the court system in the civil system and not the criminal system. Also, there is a huge backlog of civil cases, some taking decades to resolve. We currently have a large majority of criminal law trained judges and are lacking civil law trained judges. Again, neither of my opponents have civil experience.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Regarding how I will run my courtroom, my philosophy will be one of equality for everyone, regardless of their background. Working with kids from all different backgrounds and cultures when coaching youth soccer, water polo, volleyball, and little league baseball, has made me conscious of the differences in people’s experiences. Therefore, I told my teams that this is a safe place where they will be treated equally. I told them it is not a win-at-all-cost mentality because you won’t remember the score of this game a year from now, but you will remember your teammates and whether you played with character and acted appropriately. Like sports, the court system is not a win-at-all-cost system; therefore, this philosophy of how I coach my teams is how I will run my courtroom. I will expect equality for everyone: it will not be a game to the people in the cases, and they won’t be treated that way.

I believe a big problem with our judicial system in Nevada is how long it takes to resolve a case. I have had cases that last 11 years or more when appeals are involved. Expanding the Appeals Court, in addition to the Supreme Court and the Trial Courts, would be a big step in the right direction. At the trial court level, judges control their own docket. Case management and efficient court proceedings will be my number one goal. Justice delayed is justice denied. We should, as judicial officers, endeavor to move cases along as fast as possible.

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2020

Adam Ganz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ganz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a lifelong Las Vegas resident. For more than 20 years I have worked to protect our community as a civil litigation and trial attorney. I have worked on some of the most difficult and complex matters that you can imagine. I have also volunteered as a Child advocate representing abused and neglected children, sat as a Justice of the Peace Pro Tem, a court appointed arbitrator in over 100 cases, and as a Short Trial Judge. In addition to my legal experience, I have run several businesses as well as having sat on several non-profit boards in our community. I am peer rated AV Preeminent for the highest ethical and professional excellence by Martindale-Hubbell.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Lifelong Las Vegas Resident
• 20+ years of trial experience fighting for consumer's rights and social justice
• Peer rated AV Preeminent for the highest ethical and professional excellence by Martindale-Hubbell.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Numerous

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Footnotes

Nevada courts

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Federal courts:

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Nevada • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Nevada

State courts:

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