In Memoriam

Remembering the Nevada attorneys who have passed. This roster is drawn from official public records and lists 1,355 members of the bar. Memorial profiles for notable members of the Nevada legal community - their careers, contributions, and landmark cases - are being prepared and will appear here.

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Jackie Glass

Died 2026

Jackie Glass served as a judge of Nevada's Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County. She presided over the 2008 armed-robbery and kidnapping trial of O.J. Simpson, sentencing him to up to 33 years in prison in a case that drew national attention. After leaving the bench, she hosted the nationally syndicated court program "Swift Justice." She was married to Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson. Judge Glass died on August 28, 2026, at the age of 70.

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Remembered

Jackie Glass

Donna Marie Sweger

1952-08-31 - 2009-10-03

Irwin Kishner

1933-06-10 - 2017-09-04

James E. Ordowski

1933-08-25 - 2021-04-24

Robert L. Schouweiler

1927-04-05 - 2011-10-21

Roger Lane Wright

1936-08-05 - 2016-02-20

Chauncey G. Griswold

1936-10-03 - 2015-12-12

William Kerry Skaggs

1964 - 2024-12-20

Wilbur Ward Jennings

1931-11-08 - 2017

C. Coe Swobe

1929-05-23 - 2016-05-26

John Patrick Foley

July 18, 1927 - October 31, 2016

Mark Handelsman

R. Glen Woods

Sidney R. Whitmore

1921-12-31 - 2003-02-01

Jerry Carr Whitehead

Martha J. Ashcraft

1954-04-28 - 2026-03-24

Robert E. "Bob" Wolf

1943-09-05 - 1996-12-01

Bart M. Schouweiler

1934-08-11 - 2020-09-10

Pamela Elizabeth Dunn

1949 - December 26, 2008

Stephen L. Weiss

1963-06-05 - 2015-11-13

Werner Herman "Toby" Tobeler

John Roger Bissett

1928-03-23 - 2016-01-05

Arthur F. Wehrmeister Jr.

1943 - 2017-03-20

Michael N. Atwell

June 21, 1942 - December 23, 2022

Roy Allen Woofter

1933 - 2013-01-25

Henry R. Gordon

1934-01-06 - 2024-08-23

Jeremy Michael Welland

November 10, 1986 - March 7, 2024

James Harold Thompson

August 16, 1927 - 2011

Grant L. Bowen

December 7, 1908 - March 30, 1992

Henry H. Rawlings Jr.

1941-02-22 - 2016-04-19

Jennifer Suzanne Bolton

August 15, 1969 - April 15, 2014

Emile Pierre Gezelin

April 11, 1942 - March 19, 2017

Edward Cornelius Lubbers

1952-02-02 - 2018-04-02

Greg Winfield Marsh

February 26, 1959 - January 29, 2018

John Code Mowbray

1918-09-20 - 1997-03-05

John Edward Roethel

1947 - 2023-04-05

Donald Karl Wadsworth

December 21, 1930 - November 22, 2023

John William Barrett

June 9, 1917 - June 2004

Howard E. Browne

1896 - 1990-04-27

Paul Howard Schofield

1939-06-22 - 2020-05-13

Robert Benjamin "Ben" Walker Jr.

1947-03-31 - 2019-11-26

Honorable Charles Edward Springer

1928-02-20 - 2019-02-19

Richard Michael Zamora

1964-11-03 - 2016-11-29

John David Barron

March 19, 1984 - March 24, 2022

Scott K. Canepa

March 13, 1964 - December 30, 2020

Donald W. Hemingway

1919-03-13 - 2011-06-01

Herman Milo "Buzz" Adams

1927-01-05 - 2012-10-15

Brandolyn Cheyenne Henderson

1978-08-10 - 2014-04-22

John Patrick Lukens

1944-08-10 - 2013-02-01

Thomas H. Harris

1,355 attorneys

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