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Nevada Yesterdays is written by UNLV history professor, Michael Green, and is supported by Nevada Humanities
Recently, we lost Lloyd George, a longtime federal judge for whom one of the downtown federal buildings is named. We also lost a pillar of the Las Vegas community and the legal profession.
He was an almost lifelong Nevadan. He was born in Idaho in 1930 but raised in Las Vegas from childhood. He grew up at Third and Charleston. He went to the Fifth Street Grammar School, across from the federal building named for him. He graduated from Las Vegas High School, now the Academy of the Performing Arts, a block from that building. Among other things, he was a teenaged disc jockey for a local radio station before attending Brigham Young University. Then he went to law school at Berkeley. He had a unique career there. Most law students coveted summer clerkships at law firms. His summer job was as a lifeguard at a hotel pool, usually the Sands. With a twinkle in his eye, he lov