Superior Legal Knowledge and Judicial Training
A Justice of the Peace must have a superior knowledge of the law to fairly enforce it.
* Scott is the only candidate who is an instructor on the United States Constitution and Nevada criminal justice system, has clerked for Washoe County’s District Court, and has a distinguished business education.
Legal Knowledge
Instructor of Criminal Law
Scott is an instructor on each of the areas of criminal law involved in Reno Justice Court.
* Instructor at the Northern Nevada Law Enforcement Academy since 2004
- Scott is a regular instructor to new cadets and has lectured on many areas of the Nevada criminal justice system and the United States Constitution.
* In Service Training Instructor
- Scott has for many years served as an instructor and educator to experienced police officers from Federal, State and County and City police departments on all areas of the United States and Nevada Constitutions relevant to the criminal justice system.
Law Degree - University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
* Top Tier Law School - US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
* William H. Leary Scholar - "students whose grades place them in the top 20 percent of their class"
* William Hilton Waggoner Scholarship
* Emphasis on Business Law
* Scott is the only candidate who is an instructor on the United States Constitution and Nevada criminal justice system, has clerked for Washoe County’s District Court, and has a distinguished business education.
Legal Knowledge
Instructor of Criminal Law
Scott is an instructor on each of the areas of criminal law involved in Reno Justice Court.
* Instructor at the Northern Nevada Law Enforcement Academy since 2004
- Scott is a regular instructor to new cadets and has lectured on many areas of the Nevada criminal justice system and the United States Constitution.
* In Service Training Instructor
- Scott has for many years served as an instructor and educator to experienced police officers from Federal, State and County and City police departments on all areas of the United States and Nevada Constitutions relevant to the criminal justice system.
Law Degree - University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
* Top Tier Law School - US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
* William H. Leary Scholar - "students whose grades place them in the top 20 percent of their class"
* William Hilton Waggoner Scholarship
* Emphasis on Business Law
Judicial Training
Scott is the Only Candidate to Clerk for Washoe County's District Court
* the Washoe County District Court handles all trials on felony charges, civil cases involving claims greater than $10,000.00 and it is the appellate court which reviews the decisions of the Reno Justice Court.
- the Honorable Mills Lane gave Scott his start in the courts by arranging a judicial externship for Scott for this Court in 1996.
- Scott later was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Janet J. Berry, Department 1 from 1998-1999
- while working for the Court Scott reviewed, researched and drafted orders on complex civil cases, criminal cases including capital murder and reviewed appeals from Reno Justice Court judicial decisions.
* Scott has been a Washoe County Bar Association Mock Trial Judge from 2007-2010
* Scott has also served as a "We the People" Nevada State Judge
* And only Scott has represented the community every day of his legal career as a "minister of justice", reviewing thousands of cases with only one duty, to see that "justice is done".
* the Washoe County District Court handles all trials on felony charges, civil cases involving claims greater than $10,000.00 and it is the appellate court which reviews the decisions of the Reno Justice Court.
- the Honorable Mills Lane gave Scott his start in the courts by arranging a judicial externship for Scott for this Court in 1996.
- Scott later was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Janet J. Berry, Department 1 from 1998-1999
- while working for the Court Scott reviewed, researched and drafted orders on complex civil cases, criminal cases including capital murder and reviewed appeals from Reno Justice Court judicial decisions.
* Scott has been a Washoe County Bar Association Mock Trial Judge from 2007-2010
* Scott has also served as a "We the People" Nevada State Judge
* And only Scott has represented the community every day of his legal career as a "minister of justice", reviewing thousands of cases with only one duty, to see that "justice is done".
Scott is the Only Candidate to Work for a Leading Local Law Firm
* Scott was also a summer associate at McDonald Carano Wilson in 1997
- Scott worked on a wide range of civil cases at one of Reno's leading law firms
* Scott has served as an associate of the Bruce R. Thompson American Inns of Court.
Scott is the Only Candidate with a Distinguished Business Education and Experience
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law -
Emphasis on Business Law
University of Nevada
Economics Degree with Distinction
Dean’s List College of Business
Del Grande Scholarship Recipient
Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society - "academic rank is in the upper 10 percent of their class"
Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society - "top one-third of their whole class"
Golden Key National Honor Society - "world's largest collegiate honor society. Membership into the Society is by invitation only, to the top 15% of college/university sophomores, juniors and seniors."
Previous Management position for local casino
Parents are small business owners
Married to small business owner
Worked for Fortune 500 Company in law school
Teacher's Assistant - Economic Development Course - University of Nevada
Accompanied Professor Robert Metts to Kenya where Metts works with the United Nations Development Program
“I will use my business education and experience to bring much needed efficiency to the Reno Justice Court.” Scott