Judge Jerome Tao conducts a side bar with attorneys during the Joey Kadmiri trial at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.
Judge Abbi Silver presides over a trial for Armando Vergara-Martinez at the Clark County Regional Justice Center Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Martinez is accused of attacking Maria Gomez with a machete in the parking lot of a North Las Vegas convenience store in 2012.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval today named three Nevada judges to sit on the newly created Court of Appeals.
The governor selected Clark County District Court Judges Abbi Silver and Jerome T. Tao and Douglas County District Court Judge Michael Patrick Gibbons to serve on the three-judge panel that will start working in January.
A committee nominated nine candidates for the three seats. The judges will serve two-year terms before standing for election.
Sandoval said the final decision was difficult and that those selected “will work tirelessly to build the new court swiftly and smoothly.”
The court, based in Las Vegas, will handle appeals to take the burden off the Nevada Supreme Court.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to create the court after defeating the plan in four prior elections.
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