Jennifer A. Dorsey

Dorsey was born in 1971 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1994 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1997 from the Pepperdine University School of Law.

From January 1996 to February 1997, Jennifer A. Dorsey was an intern for the firm Totaro & Shanahan and participated to the California Pro Bono Project.[2]

She joined the Las Vegas law firm of Kemp, Jones & Coulthard LLP upon graduation from law school and became a partner in that firm in 2004, serving until 2013. She practiced before both state and federal courts and handled a wide variety of matters including appeals, class actions and complex commercial litigation.[3][4]

On September 19, 2012, President Obama nominated Dorsey to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Larry R. Hicks, who took senior status effective December 13, 2012.[3] On January 2, 2013, her nomination was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate. On January 3, 2013, she was renominated to the same office. Her nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16, 2013, by a vote of 10 ayes to 8 nays, the vote divided on a straight party line.[5] Her nomination was confirmed on July 9, 2013, by a vote of 54 ayes to 41 nays.[6] She received her commission on July 9, 2013.[4]

In March 2012, she allegedly made a $2,500 donation to Senator Reid's campaign, a donation that was returned to her a month later because Reid was considering her for a district attorney nomination. The following day, his partner Kemp made a $100,000 donation to a PAC, and another partner gave $50,000 to the same PAC two weeks later.[2]

In november 2018, she sent a man to jail for 22 months over a $3 millilon tax evasion fraud.[7]

In February 2019, she ruled in favor Brock Lesnar against Mark Hunt after Lesnar won a 2017 fight but failed to pass the drug test.[8][9] In March 2019, she ruled in Favor of Universal Music Group and its singer John Newman against the singer Alisa Apps, arguing that «generic words and short phrases» cannot be copyrighted.[10] In April 2019, she sentenced a man who possessed 47,000 files of child pornography to 9 years in prison.[11]

• United States District Court for the District of Nevada

• Jennifer A. Dorsey at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Jennifer Dorsey at Ballotpedia
• US District Court District of Nevada