Cadish launches first ads in race for open state Supreme Court seat
District Court Judge Elissa Cadish is going up with the first television ad of any candidate running for an open spot on the state’s Supreme Court.
Cadish’s campaign placed the television ad reservations in Las Vegas and Reno earlier this week. The ads largely follow the same script, but the Las Vegas version features Henderson Mayor Debra March and former Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury, while the Reno ad features former Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley and Margo Piscevich, the first female president of the Nevada State Bar.
Both ads tout Cadish as “fair and impartial,” and “respected by her peers,” and includes the judge herself promising to rule fairly if elected to the state’s highest court.
“My rulings will always be based on the facts, the law and what is just,” she says, facing the camera.
Cadish, a Democrat, was appointed as a District Court judge in 2007, and won her 2014 re-election unopposed. She was nominated by President Barack Obama for a seat on the federal bench in 2012, but her nomination was blocked by Republican Sen. Dean Heller over her position on firearms, and she withdrew after a year-long impasse.
She’s facing off against Leon Aberasturi, Alan Lefebvre, John Rutledge and Appeals Court Justice Jerome Tao to fill the seat being vacated by Justice Michael Cherry.
Nevada State Supreme Court justices are nonpartisan, statewide races, and elected justices serve six-year terms with no term limits.