Nell Christensen
Chief Deputy District Attorney - Clark County District Attorney's Office, NV
Among other leadership roles, Nell currently chairs the District Attorney’s Hiring Committee, Chief Deputy Promotion Committee, Policy Review Committee, Police Training Committee, and Hope for Second Chances Diversion Program, and is a member of the Legislative Committee.
Nell also holds several leadership and volunteer positions in the legal community. She helped form and now chairs the statewide Nevada Prosecution Best Practices Subcommittee. She was selected as a member of the national Prosecution Best Practices Committee. She works as a Panel Chair for the Nevada State Bar’s Attorney Disciplinary Board. She also volunteers for the Nevada State Bar as a mentor to new attorneys in the Transitioning Into Practice program. Nell teaches Trial Advocacy as an adjunct professor at UNLV Boyd School of Law. She also regularly spends time at Boyd conducting mock interviews, judging mock trials and moot courts, or teaching trial advocacy topics at Boyd’s Trial Advocacy and Opening Statements and Closing Arguments classes.
In 2019, Nell was chosen from hundreds of applicants to join the elite Leadership Las Vegas Program. She now serves as an alumnus, working on a committee to provide future classes insight into criminal justice.
In her off time, she keeps busy with her family. She is married with 4 kids and 2 dogs.