[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12600]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                RECOGNIZING THE HONORABLE BRENT T. ADAMS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I rise today to recognize the career of 
the Honorable Brent T. Adams, who is retiring from the Second Judicial 
District Court of the State of Nevada.
  For more than 25 years, Judge Adams has been the presiding judge in 
Department Six of the district court. Since being appointed to the 
distinctive position by Governor Bob Miller on July 4, 1989, his 
consistent leadership and responsiveness to the public and the court 
have not gone unnoticed, as he successfully won four elections to 
maintain his seat. Judge Adams' dedication to his profession was 
reflected in the Washoe County Bar Association's biennial surveys, 
where he consistently received exceptional judicial performance 
evaluations and high retention ratings.
  Beyond his remarkable career at the district court, Judge Adams has 
had a tremendous impact on the entire legal community. He has served as 
a faculty member of the National Judicial College for 20 years, where 
he conducts national and international legal and judicial training on a 
wide array of topics. Judge Adams initiated the Washoe County drug 
court, the court services program, and the Washoe County Criminal 
Justice Advisory Committee, which he chaired from 1993 to 2002. He is 
also an active member of the Nevada Board of Continuing Legal Education 
and has served on the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, the 
Judicial Assessment Commission, the Nevada Supreme Court Alternative 
Dispute Resolution Committee, and the Washoe County Law Library Board.
  In addition to his impressive work in the legal community, he has 
worked to serve the greater Reno community by serving on the University 
of Nevada, Reno College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council, and the Reno 
Diocese Review Board of the Roman Catholic Church.
  Through his years of professional and voluntary service, Judge Adams 
has become a fixture in the Reno community. I congratulate him on his 
many successes and decades of dedicated public service, and I wish him 
the best in all his future endeavors.

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