LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Clark County coroner's office has ruled U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Babero's death a suicide.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Nevada judge was found dead Nov. 19 in her chambers in Las Vegas.
She was 62.
Babero was appointed in 2013 as Laurel Davis. She and her husband, Las Vegas attorney Andras Babero, married in New York City on April 8.
Bankruptcy Court Clerk Mary Schott says the court worked to reschedule all of Babero's cases the day she died.
Schott says it could take 10 to 12 months for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to appoint a replacement for Babero.
Before becoming a judge, Babero practiced law for 26 years in Nevada and Arizona. She was a native of Utah and received her bachelor's degree in hotel administration from UNLV.
