District Court Judge, Eighth Judicial District, Department 28

• Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas Justice Court, Dept. 10
  • Practice Areas: Criminal, Civil (not incl. family): small claims, evictions, under $15,000
• Prior Job Titles:
  • Chief Deputy District Attorney, Clark County (2004–2022, 18 years). 12 years in the Repeat Offender Program.
  • Law clerk
  • Appointed defense counsel, Las Vegas Municipal Court (2002–2004)

• Twelve years in the Repeat Offender Program, working career-criminal initiatives with law enforcement
• Campaign cites sex-trafficking, home-invasion and violent crime prosecutions
• Tried cases in Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Boulder City, Searchlight, Laughlin, Moapa, Mesquite

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• “Tough but fair.” Public safety first.
• Her 2022 campaign attacked judges who release violent repeat offenders to electronic monitoring pretrial. Expect a pro-detention lean.
• Claims respect from prosecutors and defense bar alike. Her donor list backs that better than most such claims.

• Major Donors:
  • Valley Grove Family Trust
  • Pacific West Injury Law
  • George Brogan
  • South Point Hotel and Casino
  • Benjamin Nadig
  • David Chesnoff
• Endorsements:
  • Sheriff Kevin McMahill
  • DA Steven B. Wolfson
  • Jon Ponder (HOPE for Prisoners)
  • Cynthia Portaro; Luke McCarthy
  • Defense/civil bar: Chesnoff, Schoenfeld, Ross Goodman, Ozzie Fumo, Paola Armeni, Marc Saggese, Damian Sheets, Craig Hendricks, Frank Coumou, David Brown, Tony Abbatangelo, Benjamin Nadig, Bernie Zadrowski, Steve Altig.
  • LVMPD PPA
  • LV Police Managers & Supervisors
  • CCSD POA; LV Dept. of Public Safety
  • North Las Vegas POA
  • LV Peace Officers Association.
  • Joint Veterans endorsement

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• Prior Job Titles:
  • Attorney at Maier Gutierrez & Associates
  • Founded her own law firm, Tarmu Law, LLC
  • Partner at Mainor Wirth Injury Lawyers
  • Of Counsel at Brock Ohlson Injury Lawyers
  • Attorney at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith

• She started at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, practicing insurance defense and general liability litigation.
• Then, she worked at plaintiff firms such as Eglet Prince and Eglet Law.
• She was a partner at Mainor Wirth Injury Lawyers and of-counsel at Brock Ohlson Injury Lawyers.
  • In these roles she managed large caseloads, managed attorney teams and advocated for her clients in settlement negotiations.
• She currently works at Maier Gutierrez & Associates.
  • At Maier Gutierrez & Associates, she practices high-value, complex personal injury litigation, including catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and insurance bad faith cases.
  • She has worked on trials where juries awarded her client verdicts in the millions and tens of millions.

She has won cases where she advocated for sexual assault victims, and victims who were injured by product defects.

• Experience matters
  • She has comprehensive trial experience and believes that she’ll be a judge who gets the law right.
  • Although many candidates have criminal law backgrounds, she believes judges should also have civil trial experience because it’s just as important as criminal cases.
  • Her experience with complex matters means that she won’t be learning the law for the first time during trial.
• She is driven by justice, whether it's a business wronged by a partner or a person wronged by their insurance company.
• She believes the law exists for a reason. The law has to be followed because it ensures that everyone is treated fairly and consistently.
• Everyone is equal under the law
• She will treat everyone with respect.
  • As a judge, she will have a neutral and professional temperament, while still having empathy for the parties.
  • She says it's easy to forget that people are involved and that rulings affect them in ways that we don’t expect. For example, rescheduling a hearing means that a client might have to take another day of PTO.
  • She wants to be considerate of the party's individual lives.

• Nevada Police Officer Association
• PLAN Action (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action Fund)
• Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• Western States Regional Council of Carpenters
• Clark County Deputy Marshals Association
• Juvenile Justice Probation Officers Association
• Juvenile Justice Supervisors Association
• Las Vegas Police Protective Association - Civilian Employees

• Children’s Attorney Project at Legal Aid (2009 to 2015)
  • Mission: The Children’s Attorney Project’s mission is to represent neglected and abused children in the foster care system, represent children with disabilities who are not receiving special education services at Clark County School District, and represent children who need a legal guardian.
  • Position: Pro bono attorney (represents the interests of children in foster care and children who are wards of the state)
• She has taught continuing legal education courses.
• She has volunteered at mock trial competitions at law schools.