The error-rate committee: five sitting judges, appointed by directive

Our Nevada Judges publishes an "error rate" on every judge it profiles. Its founder's own signed directive of November 27, 2025 names the committee that classifies the appellate dispositions behind that rate: five District Court judges, whose own dispositions the organization rates.

The directive

"The Board having an opportunity to suggest candidates for a vacancy; and, in light of the resignation of Ms. Erickson, the standing advisory committee on appellate disposition classification is reorganized to contain the following members: 1) District Court Judge Joe Hardy; and, 2) District Court Judge Tammy Riggs; and, 3) District Court Judge Anna Albertson; and, 4) District Court Judge Bita Yeager; and, 5) District Court Judge Kriston Hill. 2025 Minutes. This directive shall be made public."

Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Corporate Directive 2025-0012, November 27, 2025, signed "Alexander Falconi, Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Founding Director," published by the organization at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/1044-corporate-directive-2025-0012.pdf (as downloaded October 28, 2026; PDF: the directive, as published, SHA-256 13ca726c965e1943...). The same directive installs the organization’s president and treasurer.

What the committee classifies, in the organization's words

"Judicial error rates are a function of a judge’s legal errors divided by the judge’s total cases reviewed. For the purposes of this calculation, an order reversing or vacating is considered an error, as is an order granting a writ petition. An order of affirmance or an order denying a writ petition (if based on the merits) is not considered an error. Orders dismissing an appeal, declining to consider the merits of a writ petition, and confessions of error are omitted from the computation."

ournevadajudges.com/about, as read October 29, 2026

"This website is different from other ’rate-a-judge’ websites in that we do not rely on popular reviews ... The major purpose of this website is to educate the public on the operation of the courts, through videos and statistical analysis."

ournevadajudges.com/about, as read October 29, 2026
Context. The About page describes the calculation. It does not say who decides which dispositions count as errors. The directive does: a standing committee of five sitting Nevada district court judges (the formation directive below places Judge Hardy in District 8 and Judge Riggs in District 2), each of whom has a profile and an error rate on the same site, appointed by the Founding Director. Nothing on this page characterizes any of the five judges; they are named only as the directive names them.

How the committee was formed: two judges and three lawyers, then five judges

"On January 15, 2025, it was suggested that a vote occur by email on the formation of a standing advisory committee on appellate disposition classification. Hearing no objection, and consistent with Bylaws 1.1(b), the committee is formed with the following members: 1) The Hon. James Hardy Jr., District 8, Department 15; and, 2) The Hon. Tammy Riggs, District 2, Department 3; and, 3) Patricia Erickson, Esq.; and, 4) Eric Pepperman, Esq.; and, 5) Alan Lefebvre, Esq."

Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Corporate Directive 2025-0004, January 19, 2025, signed "Alexander Falconi, Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Founding Director," published at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/859-corporate-directive-2025-0004.pdf (as downloaded October 29, 2026; PDF: the directive, as published, SHA-256 e6d6f72e2d4928fc...). The directive writes "James"; the judge of Department 15 is Joseph Paul Hardy Jr., named "Joe Hardy" in the November 2025 directive above.

"These changes are important because they trigger retroactive, categorical reclassification of existing cases which could affect all judicial profiles on the website." ... "Question 2: New Disposition Type, Affirmed and Vacated. In Supreme Court docket no. 87468, District Court Judge Tammy Riggs’s decision was affirmed, vacated, and remanded. The questions posed are 1) does the vacatur and remand suggest error; 2) more specifically, was the appellant vindicated such that he gleaned real benefit."

Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Corporate Directive 2025-0006, January 27, 2025 (the committee’s instructions; "Chairperson, The Honorable Joe Hardy"), published at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/867-corporate-directive-2025-0006.pdf (PDF, as published, SHA-256 a67b4a83640ac223...)

"The Committee reviewed Supreme Court docket no. 87468 and advised that the remand in question was procedural and a non-error. UIOP&P 103(b)(7)(i). A new disposition category will be proposed to the Board and applied retroactively to similar vacaturs as appropriate."

Minutes of the committee’s meeting of February 23, 2026, published by Our Nevada Judges July 16, 2026 at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/1182-appellate-disposition-classification-committee-minutes.pdf (PDF, as published, SHA-256 0a7e4a52474447e2...). The minutes list Judge Riggs and Judge Hardy as absent from that meeting and Judges Yeager, Hill and Albertson as present.
Context. The directive of November 27, 2025, quoted at the top of this page, replaced the three lawyers with three more judges after Ms. Erickson’s resignation; it gives no reason for the other two departures. The question about Judge Riggs’s own case was on the committee’s list from its first instructions, while she was a member, and was answered at a meeting she did not attend. This site records the sequence as the organization published it and characterizes no one.

The organization's own words on its committees and its board

"The corporation’s advisory committees consist of all-judge members. It is proposed the bylaws should be amended to require these minutes be made public in the interests of transparency."

Our Nevada Judges, Inc., 2026 Annual Meeting Agenda, July 16, 2026 (version 8, August 10, 2026), Item 6, signed "Alexander M. Falconi, Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Founding Director," published at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/1183-2026-annual-meeting-agenda.pdf (PDF, as published, SHA-256 ecd142dccb5fb31d...)

"Additionally, effective immediately, the Bylaws are amended to prohibit an active judge from serving on the Board of Directors. Bylaws 5.4. Bylaws 5.8(c)."

Our Nevada Judges, Inc., Corporate Directive 2026-0002, January 26, 2026, the same directive that reorganizes the organization’s standing advisory committee on family court coverage to six District Court judges (Pickard, Gordon, Duckworth, McFarling, Parlade, Butler), published at ournevadajudges.com/assets/docs/documents/1072-corporate-directive-2026-0002.pdf (PDF, as published, SHA-256 acfe4bcae9dc1af9...)
Context. By the organization’s own documents, active judges may not sit on its board, and both of its advisory committees, including the one that decides what counts as judicial error, are made up entirely of sitting judges. The bylaws (version 1.7, October 9, 2026) describe the organization as ’bridging the gap between the judiciary and the general public.’

What he said on camera about his contact with judges

"When I do have contact with judges it’s at arm’s length. I mean, the Our Nevada Judges Corporation is a nonprofit organization separate from the courts, and out of respect for their role I don’t get too close to them."

"Andrew & Alex: The Attack And District Security," Fox 5 New York, January 2024, as published by Our Nevada Judges January 5, 2024, at 2:47
Context. Twelve months after that statement, by his own directive, two sitting judges and three lawyers formed the organization’s committee on appellate disposition classification; twenty-two months after it, five sitting judges did. The reader may set the two side by side; this site adds nothing to either. The arm’s-length statement beside the rest of the record.

Our Nevada Judges, in his own filings