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- Political newcomers Patricia Marr and Gwynneth Smith vie for Family Court bench. [NV Current]
- Family Court race features rematch between Maxey and Gaudet. [NV Current]
2026 Judicial Election #11
- 2026 Judicial Election
- Posted on 3 weeks ago
“[Gaudet] will appear on the ballot this cycle using his middle name, Michel, in an effort to make voters think he’s a woman.” It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.
There’s definitely been an advantage to women in these elections recently, but where does he come up with a “double-digit percentage advantage”?
I don’t mind the strategy, but I’m weirded out by him announcing it. I’m dubious of the facts he relies upon.
Most of all, his record sounds pretty bad.
I’m embarrassed for him.
That’s somehow less ick than changing your name to imply your opponent is “foreign.”
The people who know… know exactly who you are talking about too.
Actually the name change was to be placed first on the ballot–change from maiden name to married name. That strategy worked.
If you’ve never been discriminated against because your name is middle eastern, I suppose you’d believe this was about the alphabet.
She took her husbands last name. Sheesh.
Who did? I’m confused, how does one change their name to make their opponent’s name sound foreign?
When both had ethnic names they were on equal footing.
The timing of taking her husbands last name was pretty interesting in that case…
Here’s a bit of fun campaign gossip. A judge appeared at a volunteer event for the homeless living in the tunnels while wearing their full campaign regalia and passing out flyers. Said judge allegedly received an admonishment from one or more of the organizers for those acts. When the tunnel folks think your behavior is inappropriate, perhaps it’s time for some self-reflection.
Who? You are anonymous.
Probably fears retribution from that judge. It’s a small legal community here after all.
Late to the conversation on this one it seems, but this was Peterson doing the tunnel campaigning.
Can we move Goodey and Ganz up to DC already? Please?
Forget Ganz
Would it be appropriate for a sitting judge to distribute campaign swag to attorneys mid-trial?
Did that happen??
Stop it!!! Who did this???!
It was Dept. 8, handing out packs of mints labeled “re-elect Judge so-and-so” according to a few sources. Apparently she said she usually gives out gum, but that day it was just the packs of mints. Call me a purist, but I’m not sure if lawyers appearing before a judge should be placed in the position of being pressured to accept campaign merchandise from the person currently deciding legal issues affecting their clients.
She also recently threw her pen across the courtroom and stormed out of a hearing for several minutes because an attorney spoke over zoom to address an argument before she could respond
She called me asking for money, apparently forgetting how abominably she had treated me in a case. I did not forget.
Normalize using names. Judge Peterson
She received her Law Degree graduating cum laude from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
Is being in the top third of the class at one of the worst law schools in the country a notable achievement? I’m assuming she wasn’t a Harvard girl in undergrad.
Doesn’t matter. Nobody cares. I hope Judge Peterson gets re-elected.
Thanks Jessica.
And then passed the same bar exam as you? Either Cooley isn’t the pejorative you think it is, or seems like she’s super smart to have the same bar license as all you elitists trying to knock her down.
I’m no elitist, but let’s be honest here. People tend to go to the best law school they can gain admittance to, that or they stay in their home state for in-state tuition, local familiarity, etc. If you leave your home state to go to the worst law school in the country, there are reasons for that decision and none of them indicate a high level of academic prowess.
While I don’t know her situation, I do know that some of my smart friends were forced to go out of state to bad schools because they spent all their undergrad years drunk/hungover and their GPAs (but not their LSATs) made admission to a Top 50 law school very difficult.
Ha, that was my situation exactly. 2.41 undergrad GPA and 96th percentile on the LSAT right out of college. The rejection letters from top-50 schools came in very quickly. Had to choose my law school based on tuition and local cost of living price. It wasn’t top-50; but thank God it wasn’t Cooley.
My situation was similar, but not as dramatic. My storyline is that my law school GPA was higher than my undergrad GPA which was higher than my high school GPA. This is not a flex, as some people in our position present it. It is a story of a lack of discipline and wasted talent. My parents and teachers did try, this was not their fault. It was mine.
10:19 AM here. I’ll add this anecdote. Because my high school GPA was so awful, I was left with the choice of going to the local university, which basically had open enrollment. This made my ACT a perfunctory act. I did not study for it, at all. I stayed up late the night prior watching TV. I scored a 33. It was a gut punch and the first time I realized that I had really squandered my potential. I was ill from it. A useless, meaningless 33.
Cooley used to weed out marginal students. Not sure they do that anymore. Used to be one of the largest law schools in the country now a much smaller class.
That’s some poor judgemint
With jokes like that I’m sure you graduated gum laude.
No that is possible grounds for a Judicial Ethics complaint but not the most serious violation.
She threw her pen and walked away? What case was it! Must be Javs of it.
No doubt she’s getting re elected. Great name.
I second this. She loses her cool constantly, throwing a pen is par for the course.
At least it wasn’t a copy of the constitution. Things be flying at the EJDC.
Kinda ironic that Scotti threw a physical constitution as an admittedly poor demonstration that you shouldn’t just toss the constitution aside and do whatever you want. Peterson on the other hand tosses the Constitution aside in her media trial to do whatever she wanted, but managed not to physically toss it while doing so.