John H. Mowbray, Esq.
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Vice President
300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION
John Hammes Mowbray is a native and Nevada resident of 58 years and has been practicing law in Southern Nevada for the past 31 years. John is the managing Director of the Las Vegas office of Fennemore Craig, P.C. Born in Henderson, Mowbray attended and graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame. After graduation, he returned to Nevada and was a law clerk to the late Honorable Roger D. Foley, United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, before entering private practice.
For over the past decade, John taught an astronomy laboratory at the College of Southern Nevada. Mowbray and his telescopes have scanned the night skies above Southern Nevada for years. Capturing on film the last solar eclipse of the 20th century and the first lunar eclipse of the 21st century, Mowbray's photographs of the comets and planetary conjunctions have been well received by visitors at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The Nevada State Museum and Historical Society in Las Vegas displayed Mowbray's photographs in an exhibit entitled "Exploring the Skies over Southern Nevada," and the magazine CERCA featured his photography in its Winter, 2002 issue.
Education
- University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Government, 1973
- University of Notre Dame, Juris Doctorate, 1976
Professional Affiliations, Awards, and Community Leadership
- Current Member and Past President of the State Bar of Nevada
- Past Member, Board of Governors for the State Bar of Nevada
- Past Member, Nevada Supreme Court Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice
- Past President, Clark County Bar Association
- Past President, Catholic Community Services of Southern Nevada
- Past President, Las Vegas Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Past President, National Eagle Scouts Association, Las Vegas Chapter
- Past President, Clark County Law Foundation
- Past Co-Chair, National Conference for Community and Justice (formerly known as The National Conference of Christians and Jews)
- Board Member, Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association and Southern Nevada Conservancy
- Current Chair, Let Freedom Ring Project
- Regent for Bishop Gorman High School
- Member, Nevada Supreme Court Judicial Code Commission
- A Fellow of the Nevada Law Foundation
- Master in the Howard D. McKibben Nevada American Inn of Court
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating (Highest legal rating for ability and ethical adherence a lawyer can receive)
- Founding Board Member, 300 Stewart Avenue Corporation for the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement
- Mountain States Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation, General Litigation, 2009
- Recipient, Lloyd D. George Professionalism Award, State Bar of Nevada, 2009
- Best Lawyers in America®, Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation, 2010