Douglas County Deputy District Attorney Bill Murphy, District Judge Tod Young and defense attorney Max Stovall all graduated from Mississippi College School of Law.
On Tuesday, District Judge Tod Young observed that it may well be the first time in Nevada history that three graduates of Mississippi College School of Law were judge, prosecutor and defense attorney in the same courtroom.
Though they didn’t quite hit the trifecta of all participating in the same case.
Young is a 1983 graduate of the college located in Jackson, Miss.
The judge is celebrating a decade on the bench after he was appointed District Judge Dave Gamble’s seat in late 2012 and took office Feb. 4, 2013. He was re-elected to the bench in 2021.
Young was admitted to the Nevada Bar in 1985. Born in Ohio, Young moved to Nevada as a toddler and practiced law for 28 years before becoming a judge.
Relatively new to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, Bill Murphy graduated in 2008. Murphy was a Nevada state public defender starting in 2010 after passing the Nevada Bar in 2009.
Serving as a contract defense attorney for Douglas County, Nevada native Max Stovall graduated from Mississippi in 2016.
The 34-year-old is a 2007 graduate of Spanish Springs High School and the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2013. Stovall passed the Nevada Bar the same year he graduated.
