LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Gov. Joe Lombardo has appointed a replacement for a Clark County district judge who resigned in early May.
Colleen Brown will take the bench on June 29, replacing Erika Ballou, who resigned on May 7. Brown will serve as Eighth Judicial District judge, Department 24.
Ballou resigned after she was sanctioned by the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline for failing to send a criminal defendant to prison and defying the state supreme court.
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Brown is currently serving as Clark County’s chief deputy district attorney. She is also team chief of the Major Fraud and Elder Abuse Unit…