Westbrook, Deborah Leigh

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During the first half of her career, Deborah Westbrook practiced labor and employment law, providing advocacy for her civil clients. For the last eight years, she has served the community as an appellate attorney with the Clark County Public Defender’s office. Deborah grew up in the 1980’s in a small town near Seattle, Washington. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be a writer. She wrote for her high school newspaper and served as features editor. After graduating in 1994, she was accepted into the University of Washington’s honors program and continued to write feature articles for the University of Washington Daily. During the summer of 1996, she interned at the Muscular Dystrophy Association as a public affairs coordinator, writing articles for newspapers across Washington State about people whose lives had been turned upside down by degenerative neuromuscular diseases. In 1998, she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. Out of college, she began working as an assignment editor at a local news station. After a year, she decided to embark on a career in the law. She attended the University of Washington School of Law from 1999-2002. During that time, she continued writing and editing, serving on the Washington Law Review as both Topics Editor and an author. She graduated from law school and was elected to the Order of the Coif in 2002. In 2003, Deborah was awarded a clerkship on the D.C. Court of Appeals, working for Judge Eric. T. Washington. After that clerkship, she knew that she wanted to one day practice in appellate law. She moved to Las Vegas in 2004 and began her career at a boutique labor and employment law firm that had recently won an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. After 8 months, she was recruited to work in the Las Vegas office of an international firm specializing in labor and employment law. She spent the next 8 years honing her civil litigation skills and handling appellate matters whenever the opportunity arose. In 2012 and 2013, she was named one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers USA. In 2013, she joined the appellate division of the Clark County Public Defender’s Office so she could practice exclusively in appellate law. For nearly a decade, she has maintained a highly successful appellate practice, with 9 published decisions in Nevada’s appellate courts. Since 2016, Deborah has worked on a statewide commission to create pattern jury instructions for criminal practitioners throughout Nevada. Since 2020, Deborah has served on the Editorial Board of the Nevada Lawyer magazine. And she was recently appointed to the Commission on Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure, which endeavors to improve appellate practice in the State of Nevada. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband David (also a Chief Deputy Public Defender) and their son Sam. In her free time, she enjoys running in marathons and Ragnar relay races in scenic spots across the country.

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