Adjunct Professor Jennifer Dorsey is a United States District Court Judge for the District of Nevada.  

Before her appointment to the bench by President Obama in 2013, she was a partner in the Nevada civil-litigation firm of Kemp, Jones & Coulthard LLP, which she joined immediately after receiving her law degree from the Pepperdine School of Law in 1997. As an attorney, she litigated a wide variety of cases, including complex commercial-litigation and class actions, and she had an extensive appellate practice in both state and federal court.  

Judge Dorsey earned her undergraduate degree in communications from UNLV, where she was a member of the debate team. She is currently a member of the American Law Institute, a lifetime member of Scribes–the American Society of Legal Writers, and was named Pepperdine Law School’s Alumnus of the Year in 2016. She has been teaching judicial writing for law clerks and externs since 2014.