predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place office battles birth_date term_start appointer rank article_title term_end name service_years alma_mater
'' 92 stat . 1629 '' seat established on october 20 , 1978 by david warner hagen 1 june 2013 mason , nevada , u.s. reno , nevada , u.s. judge district of nevada of the united states district court for the world war ii 8 july 1924 september 26 , 1979 jimmy carter staff sergeant edward cornelius reed jr. .
 july 15 , 1992 edward c. reed jr. . 1943 & ndash ; 1946 university of nevada , harvard law school
edward cornelius reed jr. .

edward cornelius reed , jr. -lrb- july 8 , 1924 -- june 1 , 2013 -rrb- was a united states federal judge in the district of nevada .
born in mason , nevada , judge reed attended public school in reno .
reed served in the united states army during world war ii , from 1943 to 1946 and was deployed in europe , achieving the rank of staff sergeant .
he saw action in the philippines and later in europe , where he was captured by enemy soldiers and imprisoned in germany during the final year of the war .
following his military service , he received a b.a. from the university of nevada in 1949 , and a j.d. from harvard law school in 1952 .
he then became a tax attorney for arthur andersen & co. , in boston , massachusetts , from 1952 to 1953 , and was in private legal practice in reno , nevada from 1953 to 1979 .
reed served as a special deputy attorney general for water rights litigation in nevada from 1967 to 1979 .
in 1979 , reed was nominated by president jimmy carter to fill a new judicial seat in the united states district court for the district of nevada .
he was confirmed by the united states senate on september 25 , 1979 , and received his commission on september 26 , 1979 .
reed served as chief judge for the district of nevada from 1986 to 1992 .
he assumed senior status on july 15 , 1992 and served until his 2013 death .
