On the last day of January’s two-week filing period for judicial candidates, Colleen Brown was glued to her screen.
Brown, a chief deputy district attorney who oversees the major fraud and elder abuse unit, filed to run for Clark County District Court Department 24 on the first day of filing two weeks prior. The seat is held by Judge Erika Ballou, who was suspended without pay for six months last September by the state’s Judicial Discipline Commission. It was unclear if Ballou would file for re-election.
Brown spent much of that Friday refreshing and refreshing and refreshing the Clark County Election Department’s website to see if Ballou or any other candidate had jumped into the race…