CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon won an open seat on the Nevada Supreme Court after an expensive race that drew more than $1 million in campaign contributions.
Herndon defeated Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo, a trial attorney and adjunct professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV serving his second term in the Legislature.
Herndon, a Republican, is the presiding criminal judge in homicide cases in Las Vegas. He's a former special victims unit prosecutor who was appointed to the bench by Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn in 2005 and elected three times.
Herndon will succeed Justice Mark Gibbons.
