Robert Gaynor Berry

Robert Gaynor Berry was born on February 13, 1936, in White Plains, New York, and was raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He attended the University of Nevada and served in the U.S. Navy before earning his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1963. He was admitted to the Nevada bar that same year and went on to build a legal career rooted in northern Nevada.

Early in his career, Berry served as a Washoe County Assistant District Attorney. He later became a founding partner of the Carson City law firm of Laxalt, Berry & Allison. Trained as a mediator at Harvard University, he served as a Nevada Supreme Court Settlement Judge and was instrumental in forming the Nevada Supreme Court's Settlement Program.

Beyond the practice of law, Berry was an active businessman in Nevada, building the Nevada Crossing Casino in Wendover and owning Barney's Casino and the South Tahoe Nugget in South Lake Tahoe. A longtime member of the Notre Dame Law School Advisory Council, he died on April 23, 2020, at his home in Reno, Nevada.