Judge Gregory G. Gordon

District Judge - Eighth Judicial District Court - Family Division - Department C

Judge Gregory Gordon was born and raised in Las Vegas. Proudly educated in the Clark County School District, Judge Gordon graduated from Valley High School in 1987. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, graduating cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1991. After college, Judge Gordon attended Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. While in law school, Judge Gordon was a member of the Dean’s Honor Roll and served on the editorial board of the Pepperdine Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude and received his juris doctor from Pepperdine in 1994 ranked #8 in his graduating class. After law school, Judge Gordon worked as an attorney at the prestigious Las Vegas law firm of Jolley, Urga, Wirth & Woodbury, rising to the level of partner in the firm. In July of 2003, Judge Gordon left the firm to open his own law practice. Before Governor Joe Lombardo appointed Judge Gordon to serve as a District Court Judge in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division in 2023, Judge Gordon practiced in the area of family law in Clark County, Nevada for 29 years. Judge Gordon has written numerous articles pertaining to family law, including: Property and Contractual Rights of Nonmarital Cohabitants: Putting Western States Construction, Inc. v. Michoff into Proper Perspective, The Communique, July, 1994; Representing Children, Nevada Lawyer, October, 1995; and Valuation of Business Interests in Divorce: The Significance of the Buy-Sell Agreement, Nevada Family Law Report, March, 2000. Judge Gordon also authored the first print edition of “Nevada Child Custody and Visitation” which appears in the Nevada Family Law Practice Manual, a resource used by many Nevada attorneys and judges. Judge Gordon is a member of the Nevada State Bar, Clark County Bar Association, and American Bar Association. He is a former editor of the Nevada Lawyer Magazine and the Nevada Family Law Reporter.

Source: official court website - retrieved Aug 22, 2026