Our Campus
In 1997, The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation agreed to provide a $4 million grant to build the addition to the existing National Judicial College facility. This amount was matched by the State of Nevada. The building was completed in 2000 and dedicated in September 2000. The new addition was named the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for the Courts and Media.
The building is a handsome two-story, 32,000-square-foot brick addition to the east side of the original NJC building. Besides housing the Center's administrative offices, it includes:
The Model Courtroom
This model courtroom is the most modern, state-of-art model yet built. It is a hands-on training center for the several thousand participants who attend The National Judicial College each year. The creative design retains the appropriate dignity of a courtroom in a high-tech setting. The courtroom technology will demonstrate how cases can run more effectively and efficiently, including:
Appropriate areas for television and still cameras for print and electronic media;
Computer-assisted technology for real-time court recordings with the ability to project testimony for the hearing impaired, and for court officials and the media to have instant access to testimony;
Video cameras to provide a video record of proceedings and enable distance receipt and transmission of evidence;
Equipment to permit access to the courts by witnesses, lawyers and jurors with vision or hearing deficits, and closed-circuit capabilities for interviewing sensitive witnesses such as children;
Computers for all court personnel, including the judge, reporters, lawyers and jurors to view individually all video and other electronically produced evidence, with screens mounted to permit court attendees to follow as well.
The Multimedia Training Center offers possibilities for distance education and online communication that expands the College's audience by reaching out to judges and media participants around the country and the world. Opportunities are also provided for representatives of the print and electronic media to attend programs with the judges. More...
Judicial Technology Resource Center
Because computers increasingly are an integral part of the workplace, the Center is designed to offer technology that will assist both judges and journalists. The Resource Center permits the College to incorporate computer-related learning in additional courses offered to judges such as Judicial Writing, Complex Litigation and Conducting the Trial.
The courtroom also will be a guest venue for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as courts in the State of Nevada.
It will provide visiting judges and court administrators from across the nation the model to assist in their planning of new facilities.
