Profiles in Judicial Excellence

Judge David A. Hardy PhD, is a fifth-generation Nevadan. He was appointed by Governor Kenny Guinn to the Second Judicial District Court in 2005. Hardy graduated from Brigham Young University magna cum laude and with honors from Brigham Young University Law School. He earned an MA and a PhD in judicial studies from the University of Nevada, Reno. Hardy has published in legal journals and magazines, is a member of the American Law Institute, and has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a long-term faculty member at the National Judicial College and has frequently presented at state and national continuing education conferences.

“Judge Hardy offers us a much-needed history of the territorial judiciary of Nevada, warts and all, and how the machinations of that early judiciary played such a major role in Nevada becoming a state. His knowledge of the state’s early judiciary system is unsurpassed. This will be a book of considerable interest to devotees of Nevada history.” —James Richardson, JD, PhD, professor emeritus of sociology and judicial studies, 1989 Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno  “Profiles in Judicial Excellence will leave its readers knowing more about the history of Nevada’s territorial and Supreme Court justices than they could find in any other book. Hardy’s research is well organized, balanced, and beautifully written.” —Kristina Pickering, Nevada Supreme Court Justice, lifetime member of the American Law Institute