Judge Tim Williams was appointed on April 4, 2006 by Governor Kenny Guinn to fill a vacancy left on the District Court bench by John McGroarty and was sworn in on April 24, 2006. He was then retained in the general election of November 7, 2006 to complete the remaining year of his predecessor’s term. He filed for re-election in 2008 and was unopposed for a six-year term commencing in January, 2009.

Judge Williams was born in 1955 and has been a 23 year resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Indiana University in 1979 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1983 from Ohio Northern University.

Prior to taking the bench, Judge Tim Williams has 20 years of complex civil litigation experience, has served on the District Court Arbitration and Mediation Panel, and presided as a Judge Pro Tem in the one-day jury trial program. It is estimated that Judge Tim Williams has served in the role as an arbitrator/mediator in hundreds of cases on behalf of the citizens of Clark County, resulting in the avoidance of costly and time-consuming litigation for the parties.

Judge Tim Williams has held many leadership positions for various bar associations. Judge Williams is the former President of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, former President of Las Vegas Chapter of National Bar Association, past member of the Consumer Protection Committee for the State Bar of Nevada, past member of the Fee Dispute Committee for the State Bar of Nevada and a member of the Nevada Supreme Court Arbitration/Mediation /Short Trial Committee. He also served 10 years as a panel member of Medical/Dental/Legal Screening Panel for the Insurance Division for the State of Nevada.

As a lawyer, Judge Tim Williams obtained an A-V ranking in Martindale-Hubbell for his legal ability and high ethical standards. Judge Tim Williams has lectured lawyers and Judges over 30 times on continuing legal education for the State Bar of Nevada, Clark County Bar Association and Nevada Trial Lawyer Association. He also has lectured law students at the Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In addition to his commitment to the law, Judge Williams has received United States Congressional recognition for community service. In 1994, Judge Williams was honored as “Humanitarian-of-the-Year” for his role in assisting boys from single parent homes. Judge Williams has also sponsored “Little League” baseball and junior high basketball teams in Clark County.

Bryan Scott was unanimously ratified by the Las Vegas City Council on June 17, 2020, as the first African American city attorney for Las Vegas in the city’s 119-year history. Scott started working for the Las Vegas City Attorney’s Office in 1996 and specializes in land use, zoning, and planning. He was the assistant city attorney for 15 years prior to his promotion. Scott is the former president of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association (1996–1999), the first African American president of the Clark County Law Foundation (2006), the first African American president of the Clark County Bar Association (2005), and the first African American president of the State Bar of Nevada (2016–2017).

Honorable Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judge, was born in Concord, North Carolina. She was appointed by Bill Clinton to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 1998, and then to the Ninth Circuit in 2000. Prior to her appointments to the federal bench, Judge Rawlinson spent her entire legal career in Las Vegas, first in private practice, then as a staff attorney for Nevada Legal Services, and then in the Las Vegas District Attorney’s Office, where she served for 18 years, ultimately as the assistant district attorney. She earned her J.D. from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1979. She is the first African American woman to sit on the Ninth Circuit.

Honorable Michael L. Douglas (Ret.) was appointed to the Nevada Supreme Court in March 2004 by Gov. K. Guinn, and thereafter retained; and twice re-elected.  Justice Douglas served as Chief Justice in 2011 and 2018. Justice Douglas was the first African American Justice in Nevada history.

Justice Douglas, a native of Los Angeles, California graduated from California State College, Long Beach in 1971 and the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1974.  He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1982 from Philadelphia, PA., where he had been working as a private attorney.

Justice Douglas Nevada career began as an Attorney with Nevada Legal Services in 1982.  Two years later he was hired by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and served in the Civil Division until 1995.  In 1996, he was appointed to the State of Nevada, Eighth Judicial District Court bench by Gov. R. Miller for one year, and thereafter was twice elect.  On the District Court he handled both civil and criminal proceeding, served on District Court Committees and Supreme Court Commissions, and was the Chief Judge of the District prior to his appointment to the Nevada Supreme Court in 2004.

On the Nevada Supreme Court along with Appellate case review, Justice Douglas co-chaired the Nevada Supreme Court Bench Bar Committee, the Nevada Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, the Specialty Court Committee, the Statewide Court Security Commission, the Statewide Criminal Procedure Committee, and the Statewide Language Access Committee until his retirement in January 2019.

During Justice Douglas time in Nevada, he has also been involved with the National Bar Association, the Judicial Council of the State of Nevada, District Judges Association, Nevada American Inns of Court, State Bar of Nevada, Nevada Law Foundation, Consumer Credit Counseling, groups fighting domestic violence, youth sports, and the UNLV Boyd School of Law.

In 2019, the UNLV Boyd School of Law created the Justice Michael L. Douglas Pre-Law Fellowship Program to introduce students from underrepresented communities to the rigors of law school and he benefits of a legal education.

Upon retirement in January 2019 Justice Douglas took Senior status and served as Acting Chief Judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals and as a Senior Judge until February 2020.

In February 2020 Justice Douglas (Ret.) ended Senior status and was appointed the first Chairman of the State of Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board.  Douglas is also a founding Board Member of newly formed Innocence Center of Nevada.