RENO, NV – The National Judicial College (NJC) is pleased to announce that the Honorable Nancy Porter of the 4th Judicial District Court in Elko, Nev. completed
The Sentencing and Management of Sex Offenders: Central Regional Judicial Training, March 19-20, 2013, with The National Judicial College in Dallas, Tex. This education program is sponsored under a grant from The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering & Tracking (SMART).
Topics included sex offenders and sexual victimization issues; assessment, treatment, and supervision of sex offenders; sentencing and its implications; and leadership within the court and the community. The National Judicial College was founded in 1963 and is the nation’s leading provider of judicial education.
The NJC is housed in a state-of-the-art building on the historic 255-acre campus of the University of Nevada, Reno. For 50 years, the NJC has been offering courses to improve judicial productivity, challenge current perceptions of justice and inspire judges to achieve judicial excellence.
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With courses held onsite, across the nation and around the world, the NJC offers an average of 95 courses annually with more than 3,000 judges enrolling from all 50 states, U.S. territories and more than 150 countries.
Since it opened, the NJC has awarded more than 85,000 professional judicial education certificates. The NJC and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges assisted the University of Nevada, Reno, in developing one of the nation’s first master’s and Ph.D. in judicial studies programs.
Both programs provide a formal academic setting in which trial judges can integrate technical and academic studies to attain an intellectual understanding of the American judiciary.
The NJC is also home to the National Tribal Judicial Center and an International Program. The College’s curricula include a Seminar Series, made up of courses that provide judges the opportunity to study diverse and interesting topics at historically and culturally rich locations across the United States.
Web-based courses are also offered enabling participants to explore a variety of subject areas online. The National Judicial College has an appointed 18-member Board of Trustees and became a Nevada not-for-profit (501)(c)(3) educational corporation on January 1, 1978. Please visit the NJC website at www.judges.org for NJC news, ways to donate, course information and more.
