Speaker Biography The Honorable Charles Hoskin

Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division

Judge Charles J. Hoskin was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Bonanza High School in 1981. He graduated from University of Utah with a B.A. in Economics in 1988. He received his J.D. from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College in 1991. While attending Northwestern, he served as the Ninth Circuit Review Editor for the Law Review.

Judge Hoskin practiced primarily Family Law until March of 2009, when he was appointed to the District Court in Department E.  He was then elected to that position in 2010 and reelected in 2014 and 2020.  Judge Hoskin served as Presiding Judge over the Eighth Judicial District Court’s Family Division from January 2014 until December 2017.

Judge Hoskin has presented at numerous seminars on a variety of legal and judicial topics.  Judge Hoskin has served on several sub-committees under the Supreme Court’s Blue-Ribbon Commission for Kids analyzing the needs of youth in the abuse and neglect system.  He also served on the Safety Focused Visitation Task Force helping find safe ways for children in abusive relationships to maintain visitation with their parents.  He currently serves on the Supreme Court’s Child Support Commission.