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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Kristine Kuzemka |
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Las Vegas, Nevada , United States |
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| Contributor | RBH |
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| Info | Background: A local public defender, Kuzemka grew up in Las Vegas and attended El Dorado High School. After getting a GED, she went to the University of Washington, where she got a bachelor's degree in sociology. She then went to Seattle University, where she received her law degree in 2002. She returned to Las Vegas in 2002 after law school and has worked in the district attorney's office, for a district judge then as a public defender. She is not married, but has a domestic partner who she has been with for 15 years.
Political experience: A registered Democrat, she ran for Justice of the Peace in 2010 in Department 6 of Las Vegas Justice Court. She said she decided to run for the Ward 2 position when Wolfson was appointed to be the county's new district attorney. "I want to continue to help our city come out of the economic morass that we've been in," she said. She said she would work to draw more businesses into the community that she loves. "I'm a proponent of open government and fiscal responsibility," she said.
Professional experience She is currently a Deputy Public Defender in the Clark County Public Defender's office, where she has been since 2004. Prior to that, she was a law clerk for former District Judge David Wall. She also clerked in the district attorney's office when Stewart Bell was district attorney.
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