Department E

Charles J. Hoskin
Department E
Eighth Judicial District Court

Term of Office 2009 – present

Charles J. Hoskin was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Bonanza High School in 1981. He graduated from University of Utah with a B.A. in Economics in 1988. He received his J.D. from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College in 1991. While attending Northwestern, he served as the Ninth Circuit Review Editor for the Law Review.

In March of 2009 Judge Hoskin was appointed to the District Court in Department E.  He was then elected to that position in 2010 and reelected in 2014. Judge Hoskin served as the presiding judge of the Family Division from January 2014 to January 2018. Judge Hoskin also presides over the Dependency (Abuse & Neglect) case-type.

Judge Hoskin has published several articles in The Communique, the official publication of the Clark County Bar Association. He was voted “Family Court Judge of the Year” by the Family Law Bar in 2011.  He has presented at numerous seminars on a variety of legal and judicial topics.

Judge Hoskin has served on several sub-committees under the Supreme Court’s Blue Ribbon Commission for Kids analyzing the needs of youth in the abuse and neglect system.  He recently served on the Supreme Court’s Children’s Commission which seeks to maintain and improve the abuse and neglect system and the Supreme Court’s Child Support Commission which is evaluating the child support structure in Nevada.  He also served on the Safety Focused Visitation Task Force helping find safe ways for children in abusive relationships to maintain visitation with their parents.

Judge Hoskin was recently appointed, by Chief Justice Cherry, to serve as Nevada’s representative on the Unites States Domestic Judicial Network to assist in international parental child abduction cases.