Ceremony honors women on Clark County bench

As portion of the largest radical of women who precocious joined the Clark County District Court bench, Veronica Barisich was among 4 judges honored during a peculiar swearing-in ceremonial Wednesday.

“Becoming an lawyer was a goal, becoming a justice was a dream,” she said. “It is the grant of my beingness to service arsenic a judge.”

One by one, the judges who archetypal assumed their positions successful January formally took an oath astatine North Las Vegas City Hall to support and support the U.S. Constitution and the instrumentality of the authorities of Nevada.

After a presumption of colors from Clark High School’s colour defender and a show of “America the Beautiful,” the judges were ceremonially robed successful beforehand of family, friends and colleagues.

District Court Chief Judge Linda Marie Bell said the metallic lining of the delayed lawsuit was that she got to cognize immoderate of the judges amended beforehand.

“It’s been an absorbing clip to beryllium connected the court; it’s been an absorbing clip to beryllium a caller justice connected the court, precise challenging,” she said. “But they did not fto the pandemic dilatory them down astatine all.”

Since taking the seat successful January, Bell said, the caller judges person processed much than 2,000 orders, signed 120 hunt warrants, and overseen 30 colony conferences and 37 trials.

“Welcome, formally, to the court,” she said. “We’re blessed to person you.”

There were 22 caller Clark County judges elected past year. Women dominated the elections, contempt determination being 2 much women than men connected the District Court seat anterior to the election. Now, 24 retired of the 32 departments, oregon 75 percent, are tally by women. More than fractional of the state’s territory tribunal judges are women.

It’s besides the first clip successful Nevada past that much women than men are astatine the helm of the state’s Supreme Court.

The 8th Judicial District Court ceremonial Thursday was for Barisich, section 5; District Judge Nadia Krall, section 4, Family Judge Amy M. Mastin, section M, and Family Judge Jessica K. Peterson, section 8.

Barisich said it was lone fitting that she was joined by the retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Michael Cherry, who besides swore her successful erstwhile she became an attorney.

Krall, who formerly ran a idiosyncratic wounded instrumentality practice, was portion of the UNLV Boyd School of Law’s archetypal graduating class.

“I service 1 person, and that’s Lady Justice,” she said. “I volition laic astatine her feet and bash justness for the authorities of Nevada and for Clark County.”

Mastin was honored for her enactment arsenic a proceeding maestro successful home unit tribunal and clerking for Senior Judge Gerald Hardcastle.

Peterson, a erstwhile inferior spouse astatine the Flangas Law Firm, said she grew up wanting to beryllium Wonder Woman.

“While I whitethorn not get to beryllium Wonder Woman, arsenic a justice I get to beryllium beauteous close,” helium said. “I get to assistance litigants and attorneys each time successful their combat for justice, and I get to deterioration a cape, too.”

The 2nd of the 2 ceremonies volition beryllium held Thursday for judges Tara Clark Newberry, Margaret Pickard and Bita Yeager.

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