Kent Dawson

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Kent Dawson is a United States District Court Judge in the District of Nevada, having been appointed to that position by President Bill Clinton and approved by the U.S. Senate in 2000. Dawson has lived in Henderson, Nevada since 1972, where he was also City Attorney and County Judge.

A famous case heard by Judge Dawson was the criminal prosecution of professional tax protester, Irwin Schiff. In 2005, Schiff was convicted of various criminal tax charges for which Dawson sentenced Schiff, in February of 2006, to over 13 years in prison.