Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 | 5:55 p.m.
A state panel has narrowed down a short list of judicial candidates for Nevada's newly formed appeals court.
Three judges will serve on the new court, which will be based in Las Vegas. The Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection announced Thursday that it had whittled a list of 36 applicants down to nine — three per each new judgeship. The applicants, who had to be Nevada attorneys with 15 years of legal experience, were picked after a series of interviews in front of the panel this week.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will select three new judges from the panel's list of finalists. The finalists' applications are posted on the Nevada Supreme Court website:
Department 1
David A. Hardy, 50, District Court judge, Second Judicial District
Kirby J. Smith, 57, attorney, Lionel Sawyer & Collins
Jerome T. Tao, 46, District Court judge, Eighth Judicial District
Department 2
Thomas D. Beatty III, 72, attorney, Law Offices of Thomas D. Beatty
Michael Patrick Gibbons, 58, District Court judge, Ninth Judicial District
Susan Holland Johnson, 55, District Court judge, Eighth Judicial District
Department 3
Allan Ray Earl, 73, District Court judge, Eighth Judicial District
Abbi Silver, 50, District Court judge, Eighth Judicial District
Joan Chisholm Wright, 62, attorney, Allison Mackenzie Pavlakis Wright & Fagan
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