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Gov. Ricketts Appoints Thomas Klein to the County Courtroom for the Sixth Judicial District
LINCOLN – At this time, Governor Pete Ricketts appointed Thomas Klein of Wahoo to the County Courtroom, Sixth Judicial District (consisting of Burt, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Thurston, and Washington counties).
Klein, 55, has served because the Saunders County Public Defender since January 1999. Moreover, he has served as Village Legal professional for the Village of Morse Bluff since 1993. Klein has additionally labored as Managing Companion at Haessler, Sullivan, Klein, LTD. since 1999 after having labored his approach up from Affiliate Legal professional in 1993.
As Managing Companion, Klein has practiced legislation in quite a few counties in East Central Nebraska, each in County Courtroom and in District Courtroom. Klein has practiced in a broad vary of areas in legal legislation, together with felonies, misdemeanors, and appeals. He has expertise in juvenile issues, representing juveniles as a Guardian Advert Litem. Klein additionally represented people in a broad civil follow, together with issues in household legislation, actual property issues, adoptions, guardianships, conservatorships, contract disputes, probate issues, and normal civil litigation.
He has broad expertise in all forms of legal circumstances and has tried quite a few bench and jury trials throughout his profession. A number of instances, Klein’s circumstances have gone earlier than the Nebraska Supreme Courtroom and the Nebraska Courtroom of Appeals.
Klein holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the College of Nebraska-Omaha and a Juris Physician from Creighton College Regulation Faculty. He’s a member of the Saunders County Bar Affiliation, the Nebraska State Bar Affiliation (having served as an elected member of the Home of Delegates from 2004-2011), and the Nebraska Prison Protection Legal professional’s Affiliation.
Klein has been actively concerned with the youth in his group. For ten years, he has served as a Member of the Board of Administrators for Wahoo Baseball Affiliation and likewise as an Assistant Baseball Coach. This builds on a long time of service as a soccer, hockey, and monitor and area coach. Klein has been a USATF Observe and Discipline Official since 1992. He has been a volunteer mock trial competitors decide since 1994, and he’s a staff coach for center and highschool college students within the Calvary Robotics Membership.
Klein additionally serves as a volunteer speaker for a number of organ and tissue donation initiatives all through the state, together with for Reside on Nebraska, the Lions Membership Organ Donation Program, and the Nebraska Organ Retrieval Programs. Moreover, he serves on the NICU Household Assist Committee for the March of Dimes by means of the Nebraska Medical Heart.
Klein fills the emptiness created by the resignation of Decide Kenneth J. Vampola.
The first place of workplace for the judicial emptiness is Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska.
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