Days & Times
1 p.m. PDT/2 p.m. MDT/3 p.m. CDT/4 p.m. EDT
Course Location
Online
Douglas W. Herndon was born and raised in Texas and received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in 1986. He then received his law degree in 1990 from the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Chief Justice Herndon was elected to the Supreme Court of Nevada in 2020 and is currently serving a two-year term as the Court’s Chief Justice. From 2005 through 2020, he served as a District Court Judge in Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas). He was the Chief Judge of the Criminal Division and the Homicide Case Team.
Prior to his judicial service, Chief Justice Herndon worked in the Clark County District Attorney’s Office as the Chief Deputy District Attorney in charge of the Special Victim’s Unit. There, he specialized in the prosecution of cases involving child homicide and the physical and sexual abuse of women and children.
Chief Justice Herndon enjoys writing and presiding over mock trial and trial advocacy programs for Elementary, Middle and High School students, as well as for UNLV law school students. He has also been a volunteer instructor at the Signs of Hope - Rape Crisis Center for 28 years. Chief Justice Herndon is married and he and his wife, Carrie, have two daughters, Kaitlyn and Emily Grace. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, biking, and running full and half marathons.
Robert H. Jackson & the Justice Jackson Lecture Series
Robert Houghwout Jackson was born Feb. 13, 1892, on the same farm as his father and grandfather in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania. He never attended college but went to Albany Law School for one year. He obtained most of his legal education under the old apprenticeship system as a law clerk and did not acquire a law degree until after he was named a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was awarded an honorary degree by Albany Law School.
Justice Jackson was invited by President Franklin Roosevelt to serve in the New Deal government, first as general counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, later as solicitor general and attorney general. He took his seat as a justice of the Supreme Court on Oct. 6, 1941, and served until his death in 1954. Justice Jackson is best remembered for his wisdom, vigorous decisions, and for his role as America’s chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Trials. The decision to honor Justice Jackson with this lecture series was made by his friend and Supreme Court colleague Justice Tom C. Clark, one of the NJC’s founders.
Douglas W. Herndon was born and raised in Texas and received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in 1986. He then received his law degree in 1990 from the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Chief Justice Herndon was elected to the Supreme Court of Nevada in 2020 and is currently serving a two-year term as the Court’s Chief Justice. From 2005 through 2020, he served as a District Court Judge in Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas). He was the Chief Judge of the Criminal Division and the Homicide Case Team.
Prior to his judicial service, Chief Justice Herndon worked in the Clark County District Attorney’s Office as the Chief Deputy District Attorney in charge of the Special Victim’s Unit. There, he specialized in the prosecution of cases involving child homicide and the physical and sexual abuse of women and children.
Chief Justice Herndon enjoys writing and presiding over mock trial and trial advocacy programs for Elementary, Middle and High School students, as well as for UNLV law school students. He has also been a volunteer instructor at the Signs of Hope - Rape Crisis Center for 28 years. Chief Justice Herndon is married and he and his wife, Carrie, have two daughters, Kaitlyn and Emily Grace. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, biking, and running full and half marathons.