District Court Judge, Eighth Judicial District, Department 21

• She currently serves as a District Court Judge for the Eighth Judicial District Court for 5 years after she was elected in 2020.
• Prior Job Titles:
  • She has worked as a police officer for eight years.
  • After moving to Nevada, she worked as a trial attorney, practicing bankruptcy, debt defense and real estate.
  • She has also served as a mediator for Nevada’s foreclosure mediation program in District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
  • Worker for one year at a civil defense firm, Dearner, Scan, Malin and Larson
  • She started her own firm, practicing consumer law, real estate, and general civil litigation.

• She was the first openly LGBTQ+ judge when she was elected in 2020.
• She completed Emerge Judicial Bootcamp, a program that inspires women to run for office.

• She remembers presiding over a case that involved pre-existing medical conditions for first responders. She authored a lengthy written decision for that case that was later affirmed by the Nevada Supreme Court.

• Experience in law enforcement
  • She has experience as both a community neighborhood officer and an undercover police officer.
• Experience on the bench
  • She oversees all cases in the civil division, including the Alternative Dispute Resolution commissioner, the Discovery Commissioner, and the probate commissioner. She meets with judges semi-quarterly to work through common issues, any rules or statutory changes, and host training sessions for her colleagues.
• Community service
  • She said she is always mindful of the impacts crime and the criminal justice system have on the community.

• Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1107
• Southern NV Building and Trades
• District Attorney Steve Wolfson
• Carpenter’s Unions
• ILUNA 872
• Smart Local 88
• Iron Workers Local 43
• Marshall’s Association
• Clark County District Attorney’s Association
• Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers (NAPSO)
• Investigators Association from District Attorney’s office
• Professional Firefighters of Nevada Endorsement
• Third Branch PAC

• Clark County Bar Association
  • Position: Co-chair Trial By Peers Committee
  • Mission: This is a diversionary program for minors who have truancy notices, curfew violations, and status offenses (i.e. possessing cigarettes as a minor).
    • She described it as a summer crash course on law. In this program, students role-play as “lawyers” who represent their clients and the jury is made up of people who have previously completed the program. It also helps students gain community service hours and write letters of apology.
    • She was voted Favorite Instructor in 2008, 2009 & 2010.
• When she was a police officer, she volunteered at at-risk youth camps, teaching them how to fish, swim, row a canoe and other outdoor activities.
  • As a volunteer, she wanted to break down fears and misunderstandings about “being in a big scary police uniform” for young children.

• Chief deputy public defender, Clark County Public Defender's Office: 2006 to present
  • Hubert is team chief of a general litigation track, with responsibility for mentoring, training and managing attorneys and support staff.
  • He reports he manages six or seven attorneys and four support staff in his role.
  • Vertical representation (carrying a case from initial appearance through disposition) of indigent clients from misdemeanor through felony, including sexual assault and murder.
  • Training deputy for the Clark County Public Defender's New Attorney Training Program, with emphasis on sentencing arguments and preliminary hearing preparation.
  • Assisted on the homicide and sexual assault defense teams, on cases involving adult and child victims.
• Practice areas in current position
  • Indigent criminal defense, covering misdemeanor through capital-eligible felony matters.
  • Homicide and sexual assault defense, as a member of the office's dedicated defense teams.
  • Pediatric brain injury cases, fatal and nonfatal, described as a subspecialization.
  • Competency and mental health litigation, and matters involving psychiatric disorders and substance abuse.
  • Termination of parental rights defense in family court, for a criminal defense client facing allegations of physical and psychological abuse.
  • Immigration removal defense.
  • Prior civil practice, 2006 to 2007 only: plaintiff-side subrogation, insurance defense and construction defect defense
• Prior job titles
  • Adjunct law professor (jurisprudence and criminal law), Arizona Summit Law School, Phoenix: 2015 to 2016.
    • Designed a jurisprudence course and a Criminal Sentencing Theory and Practice curriculum.
  • Associate attorney, Murchison & Cumming LLP, Las Vegas: 2006 to 2007
    • Depositions, motion drafting, interrogatories and demand letters in subrogation matters; research on a large construction defect lawsuit; motion argument in district court; personal injury settlement work.
  • Prosecutor (supervised student practice under Arizona Supreme Court Rule 38), Mesa City Prosecutor's Office, Mesa, Arizona: 2003 to 2004
    • Misdemeanor prosecution with emphasis on domestic violence battery and DUI.
  • Substitute teacher, Maricopa County Regional School District, Phoenix: 2004 to 2005
    • Alternative and special education instruction for teenage mothers, juvenile offenders and students with learning disabilities.
  • Substitute teacher, Durango Juvenile Detention Center, Phoenix: 2004
    • Taught detainees ages 7 to 18.

• Education
  • Law degree, Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe: August 2001 to December 2003.
  • Bachelor's degree in philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson: August 1995 to July 2000.
  • Graduated cum laude, dean's list with distinction in 2000 and dean's list in 1999.

Hubert has identified only one notable matter: a construction defect defense case he described as "a billion-dollar lawsuit."

• Hubert says he is running with no expectations and filed "truly out of an interest and a desire to continue [his] public service." He emphasizes his long-term commitment to public service, from teaching at-risk students to nearly two decades of indigent defense.
• He describes learning to balance toughness with compassion and says he is prepared to bring "fairness, empathy, integrity, and a touch of levity to the bench."
• The campaign website organizes the platform around four pillars:
  • Integrity: pledges recusal where appropriate and states that decisions will not turn on acquaintance, donors or influence.
  • Impartiality: commits to evaluating each case on its own merits, framing justice as process and rule of law rather than outcome.
  • Respect for the law: a separation-of-powers framing under which judges interpret and legislators make law, with a commitment to applying statutes and precedent even where the result is personally difficult.
  • Compassion: fairness without coldness, dignity for litigants and courtrooms that are accessible and understandable.
• Hubert is also a proponent of treating mental illness and substance abuse as root causes rather than aggravating facts.

• Endorsements
  • Veterans in Politics
  • Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165
  • Armed Forces Chamber
  • Teamsters Nevada
  • Hispanics in Politics
  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 720
  • PLAN Action, the political arm of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
  • Southern Nevada Central Labor Council
  • Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' Local 797
• Contributions
  • Of his contributions, 36 percent came from confirmed members of the legal profession.
  • Of his contributions, 44 percent came from individual donors who do not appear to be specifically involved in the legal profession.
  • Of his contributions, 17 percent ($2,187.60) is candidate self-funding.
  • Of his contributions, 8 percent ($1,000) came from private criminal defense lawyers.
  • Hubert's largest source of contributions is individual donors at the Clark County Public Defender's Office ($3,100 total).

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada: mentor to the same "Little Brother" for over 20 years, beginning after his 2005 move to Las Vegas.
• Pro bono legal services for low-income clients, veterans and at-risk populations, per the campaign website. No hours, years, organization or case type is identified.