Christopher Hazlett-Stevens
Christopher Hazlett-Stevens is a judge for Department 4 of the Reno Municipal Court in Nevada. He assumed office on November 18, 2022. His current term ends on January 2, 2029.
Hazlett-Stevens ran for election for the Department 4 judge of the Reno Municipal Court in Nevada. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Hazlett-Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Christopher Hazlett-Stevens was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Penn State in 1997 and a law degree from the McGeorge School of Law in 2006. His career experience includes working as a judge, a bilingual services coordinator for a child abuse treatment agency in Long Beach, an investigator for the State Bar of California, and a compliance investigator for the Nevada Equal Rights Commission.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Reno, Nevada (2022)
General election
General election for Reno Municipal Court Department 4
Christopher Hazlett-Stevens defeated Henry Sotelo in the general election for Reno Municipal Court Department 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Christopher Hazlett-Stevens (Nonpartisan)  | 50.3 | 35,152 |
 | Henry Sotelo (Nonpartisan) | 49.7 | 34,750 | |
| Total votes: 69,902 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Christopher Hazlett-Stevens and Henry Sotelo advanced from the primary for Reno Municipal Court Department 4.
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Christopher Hazlett-Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hazlett-Stevens' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I strive each day to work with those who come before me in an effort to reduce recidivism by targeting untreated mental health and substance use issues that animate criminal behavior. This approach is guided by my 12 years serving as a trusted criminal prosecutor for our City. I believe that targeting the underlying issues of criminal behavior gives us our best chance at truly reducing crime, long term. This concept became most salient when I served as the prosecutor on the Veterans Treatment Court at the Reno Municipal Court. We bore witness to many of our nations veterans make profound and lasting changes in their lives allowing them to feel whole and reconnected with society. It gave them their dignity back. This approach works.
- Many in our community are struggling but do not have access to things many of us take for granted, food, clothing, shelter drinking water, medical care, etc. I relaunched Community Court in an effort to ensure all members of our community have equal access to these essential components of life. At Community Court, we see many people end the cycle of homelessness, find housing and employment, as well as mental health and substance use treatment. By helping people thrive, we can end the cycle of criminal behavior. This is the approach we take each week at Community Court.
- Access to justice is vital. I am currently the only Spanish speaking judge on the Reno Municipal Court bench. I speak Spanish each day to our Spanish speaking constituents so that they know that they belong, that they have a place their, too. While the proceeding must be done in English with a Court interpreter, I make every effort to first speak in their native language prior to the proceeding. While I wish I spoke several additional languages in order to encompass all of the many languages spoken in our Community, nearly 30 percent of our population is Hispanic/Latino. It is important that we include them in the conversation.
Judicial transparency is vital. Politics have no place in the judicial system. As a judge, I am bound by the law and judicial precedence. My rulings cannot stray from controlling case law.
My sons. They show me that even though something is scary, difficult or emotionally tough, you must persevere.
The primary responsibility is to keep our city safe.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 30, 2022
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