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Elizabeth Gonzalez (Nevada)
Elizabeth Gonzalez was a judge for Department 11 of the Nevada 8th Judicial District Court. She assumed office on July 26, 2004. She left office on September 7, 2021.
Gonzalez ran for re-election for the Department 11 judge of the Nevada 8th Judicial District Court. She won in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Education
Gonzalez received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida in 1982 and her J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1985.[1]
Career
- 2004-2021: Judge, Eighth Judicial District Court
- 1998-2004: Attorney in private practice
- 1986-1998: Attorney, Beckley, Singleton, Jemison & List[1]
Awards and associations
- 2007: Judge of the Year, Trial by Peers Program, sponsored by the Clark County Law Foundation
- 2002: Attorney of the Year, State Bar of Nevada Access to Justice Committee
- 1992: Award, Clark County Pro Bono Project [1]
Elections
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Clark County, Nevada (2020)
General election
General election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 11
Incumbent Elizabeth Gonzalez won election in the general election for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 11 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Elizabeth Gonzalez (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 682,554 | |
| Total votes: 682,554 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Incumbent Elizabeth Gonzalez advanced from the primary for Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Department 11.
2014
See also: Nevada judicial elections, 2014
Gonzalez ran for re-election to the Eighth Judicial District Court.
Primary: She was elected without opposition in the primary on June 10, 2014.
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Elizabeth Gonzalez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Noteworthy events
Critical piece on judge published in small Conn. paper (2015)
On December 1, 2015, a small Connecticut newspaper published an investigative story that included criticism of Judge Gonzalez. That publication, the New Britain Herald, is owned by a business associate of a defendant in a trial over which Gonzalez presided.[4]
The case was brought by a former employee of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and its chief executive officer, Sheldon Adelson. Relatives of Adelson are major investors in the News + Media Capital Group LLC which purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal in December.[4]
According to a report in the Hartford Courant, before the Review-Journal sale was finalized, some reporters at that paper were told to drop everything and investigate three Clark County judges including Gonzalez.[4]
The Journal did not publish anything about the judges, but the New Britain Herald article criticized Gonzalez's rulings and claimed that her decisions in Adelson's case and in another case involving a rival casino owner "appear[ed] inconsistent and even contradictory."[4]
Two men who were quoted in the story, Harry Mazadoorian and Steve Arwood, claimed they didn't know where the quotes came from and were never contacted by the paper. The name on the story’s byline, Edward Clarkin, was described in social media as a mystery man. The paper's publisher, Michael Schroeder, only said, "We stand by our story, and invite anyone who believes we published something in error to call our attention to it and, if substantiated, we will run a correction as per the corrections policy published each day on Page 2."[4]
Steve Collins, a reporter for the Bristol Press, resigned on December 24. The Bristol Press is the sister paper of the New Britain Herald. Collins' resignation was in response to the December 1 article about the Las Vegas judges, as he explained to the Erik Wemple Blog:
| “ | I have watched in recent days as Mr. Schroeder has emerged as a spokesman for a billionaire with a penchant for politics who secretly purchased a Las Vegas newspaper and is already moving to gut it. I have learned with horror that my boss shoveled a story into my newspaper – a terrible, plagiarized piece of garbage about the court system – and then stuck his own fake byline on it[...] In sum, the owner of my paper is guilty of journalistic misconduct of epic proportions.[5] | ” |
| —Steve Collins[6] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedbio - ↑ Clark County Nevada, "Election: Candidate Filing in Clark County," accessed February 13, 2014 Select "Election Year: 2014"
- ↑ Silver State Election Night Results, "2014 Primary Election Results - Judicial," accessed June 11, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Hartford Courant, "Mystery Surrounds Newspaper's Relationship To Las Vegas Casino Mogul Sheldon Adelson's Legal Fight," December 23, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Washington Post, "Reporter for Connecticut’s Bristol Press resigns, and why that matters," December 24, 2015
Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Nevada • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Nevada
State courts:
Nevada Supreme Court • Nevada Court of Appeals • Nevada District Courts • Nevada Justice Courts • Nevada Municipal Courts • Clark County Family Court, Nevada
State resources:
Courts in Nevada • Nevada judicial elections • Judicial selection in Nevada
