Appointed judge (R) challenged by longtime civil attorney in District Court Deparment 14
A longtime civil attorney is challenging a recently appointed judge and former prosecutor for the District Court Department 14 bench.
District Judge Tina Talim, 46, is a former chief deputy district attorney who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Joe Lombardo in June. She is the first Indian-American judge in Nevada. Her opponent, civil attorney Alan Lefebvre, 71, questioned her qualifications to oversee civil cases and said in a recent interview with the Review-Journal that “identity politics” should stay out of judicial elections.
Talim was the only applicant for the vacant department seat, according to the Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection website.
Although the Nevada Constitution calls for judicial candidates to be selected from among three nominees, a judicial selection commission rule allows for the group to forward all applicants to the governor if there are three or fewer qualified people who apply.
Lefebvre, a longtime civil attorney who served as president of the Nevada Bar Association from 2013 to 2014, said he is concerned that “civil law expertise” among judges is dropping, as positions are being filled with former prosecutors and public defenders.
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