Born 1969 in Redwood City, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
Nominated by Joseph R. Biden on January 3, 2022, to a seat vacated by Robert Clive Jones. Confirmed by the Senate on March 23, 2022, and received commission on April 7, 2022.

Education:
Brown University, A.B., 1991
University of California Hastings College of the Law (now UC College of the Law, San Francisco), J.D., 1996

Professional Career:

Law clerk, Hon. Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1996-1998
Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Nevada, 2000-2002
Assistant federal public defender, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2002-2008
Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, 2002, 2008-2022
     Adjunct professor of law, 2002
     Associate professor of law, 2008-2014
     Director, Appellate Clinic, 2009-2022
     Associate dean for experimental legal eduation, 2013-2015, 2021
     Professor of law, 2014-2022
     Co-director, Misdemeanor Clinic, 2018-2022
Special counsel, Office for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 2015-2016

Other Nominations/Recess Appointments:

Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, April 28, 2016; no Senate vote
Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, November 3, 2021; no Senate vote