Lehman, Jack

Judge Jack Lehman was born in the late 1920s in Germany. He was sent to the United States of America with his sister in 1935 and after a series of living situations including an orphanage in New York, they were adopted by the Lehman family in Lake Arrowhead, California. As a young boy, he wanted to become a lawyer. After getting a degree from Berkley University, two tours of military duty, a stint in radio broadcasting, and serving as the Director of the Nevada Department of Economic Development, he entered law school at the University of Southern California.

Lehman’s career in the legal field began at the largest law firm in Las Vegas— Lionel Sawyer and Collins—and then into private practice and on to the bench as a District Court judge appointed by Governor Richard Bryan. In February 2008, he was honored by judges and friends statewide as the founder of Nevada’s Adult Criminal Drug Court Program commonly known as “drug court.”