The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation asked questions about 101 judges from the Nevada Supreme Court and multiple lower courts.
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Clark County lawyers rated 101 judges for the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation. UNLV’s Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment conducted the survey, which the Review-Journal has sponsored 14 times since 1992. Here are the results.
Nevada’s appellate courts are full of judges who are experienced and fair in the courtroom, according to Clark County lawyers.
Fourteen judges received retention scores over 90 percent in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation and are considered strong performers.
Lawyers gave some of the highest scores to the judges serving on the municipal and justice courts of North Las Vegas, Las Vegas and Henderson — and some of the lowest, too.
Two Family Court judges received especially impressive scores in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation, but lawyers think two others should be ousted.
Lawyers who filled out the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation want two Clark County district judges to leave the bench but gave high marks to others.
District Judge Erika Ballou has been suspended from the bench, censured and removed from all criminal cases.
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