EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1960
Juris Doctor, New York University School of Law, 1963
Graduate Studies, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada 1972
Certificate in Dispute Resolution from Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, 2003

WORK HISTORY
1963-1964: Law Clerk, Nevada Supreme Court
1965-1966: Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, Nevada
1967: Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, Nevada
1967-1971: Private practice of law
1971-1974: District Court Judge, Clark County, Nevada
1974-1992: Private practice of law, arbitration, mediation
1992-1994: Bar Counsel, State Bar of Nevada, served as Chief Counsel in charge
of attorney discipline and General Counsel to the Board of Governors
1994-2000: General Counsel and Executive Director, Nevada Commission on
Judicial Discipline
2000-Present Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Mediation

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
CIVIL LAW

• Counseled clients in gaming, real estate, business, and corporate law
  
• Litigated construction and business related matters
  
• Handled purchases and sales of businesses, radio stations and cable TV companies
  
• Represented both management and labor in contract negotiation and labor relations
  
• Represented the State of Nevada Board of Health as independent counsel in regard to the low level nuclear waste dump in Beatty, Nevada

GOVERNMENTAL LAW

• Represented clients in matters before Nevada regulatory agencies including the Gaming Commission, Gaming Control Board and Public Service Commission
  
• Represented clients before county commissions and county planning commissions
  
• Represented clients as a lobbyist at the Nevada State Legislature

COURTROOM

• Litigated cases in all courts of Nevada, including District Court of Nevada, Nevada Supreme Court, United States District Court of Nevada and United States District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  
• Served as a prosecutor and lead defense counsel in capital cases
  
• Litigated complex business and construction cases that resulted in multi-million dollar awards
  
• Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court

JUDICIAL

• Appointed by Governor O'Callahan to the Eighth Judicial District Court bench in July 1971
  
• Elected District Court Judge in Clark County, Nevada in 1972
  
• Held court in many counties in the state of Nevada
  
• Designated by the Governor to fill a vacancy on the Nevada Supreme Court on an individual case basis
• Pro tempore judge 8th judicial district court, Las Vegas, Clark county, Nevada
• Pro tempore judge 2th judicial district court, Reno, Washoe county, Nevada

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION

• Selected as arbitrator and mediator in employee-management disputes, commercial, construction, and personal injury cases
  
• Previously served as a mediator and panel member for complex cases for the American Arbitration Association
• Serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the State of Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division
  
• Settlement Judge, Nevada Supreme Court
  
• Panel Member, Court Annexed Mandatory Arbitration Program
• Panel Member, Mediator 8th Judicial Distric Court: Clark County, Nevada and 2nd Judical District Court Washoe County, Nevada

LECTURER

• Lectured to attorneys at continuing legal education seminars on ethics and profession responsibility, arbitration, mediation and criminal law
  
• Lectured at bar examination review course on commercial law
  
• Conducted seminars on arbitration, fact-finding and mediation
  
• Lectured at the National Academy of Law Ethics and Management

PHILANTHROPIC

• Member, Board of Trustees, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada, a fully accredited liberal arts college; 1982-1992, Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Board
  
• Founding Trustee, Vegas Verdes Clinic, North Las Vegas, Nevada, a federally funded clinic providing health care to the underprivileged
  
• Organizer and past member of the Board of Directors, Las Vegas Symphony Society
  
• Past member, Master, Nevada Inns of Court

PERSONAL

• Married to Roberta (Bobbie) Gang for 47 years, three adult children, four grandchildren
  
• Veteran of the United States Navy
  
• Outside interests include flying airplanes, skiing, bicycling, hunting, fishing, and hiking.