resting_place governor predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion party office birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
palm u.s. memorial park northwest las vegas , nevada , robert list robert e. rose robert g. legakes new seat bob cashell bob cashell michael douglas 9 january 2004 las vegas , nevada , u.s. las vegas , nevada , u.s. the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints democratic lieutenant 8 , dept. 1 justice of the nevada supreme court governor , seat f of nevada district court judge , no. 27 october 1930 27th january 1 , 1979 1984 january 5 , 1999 myron e. leavitt
 january 9 , 2004 3 , 1983 january 4 , 1998 january myron e. leavitt
myron e. leavitt

myron e. leavitt -lrb- october 27 , 1930 -- january 9 , 2004 -rrb- was an american politician .
he was the 27th lieutenant governor of nevada from 1979 to 1983 .
he was a native of las vegas , nevada , and served in many political positions , including the clark county commission from 1971 to 1974 , and the las vegas city council from 1975 to 1978 .
he was a member of the democratic party .
leavitt was born in 1930 in las vegas to myron ` mike ' leavitt , a county highway department worker , and his wife estella , a maid .
following graduation from las vegas high school in 1948 , myron e. leavitt won an athletics scholarship to the university of nevada , reno .
graduating from unr with a degree in journalism , leavitt returned to las vegas , where he worked as sports editor for the las vegas review-journal .
with the encouragement of his brother , leavitt entered the university of utah college of law , where he graduated in 1956 , eighth in his class .
he returned to las vegas , where he entered private practice .
leavitt subsequently served as justice of the peace , clark county commissioner -lrb- as had his father -rrb- , las vegas city commissioner , and ultimately as the state 's lieutenant governor .
following his term as lt governor , then-governor richard bryan appointed myron to the district court in 1984 , where leavitt served until being elected to the nevada supreme court in 1998 , a position to which he was reelected in 2000 , and was holding at the time of his death in 2004 .
leavitt had earlier run for the state supreme court twice -lrb- 1988 and 1994 -rrb- but failed to get elected .
he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1982 .
as an attorney in private practice for 28 years , leavitt successfully argued a case that ultimately forced the nevada legislature to reapportion itself according to population .
he also argued the case that forced the board of regents at the university of nevada to reapportion itself .
the justice myron e. leavitt middle school in las vegas was named in honor of the supreme court justice in march , 2002 .
