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(Lincoln, NE) Gov. Dave Heineman today announced his appointment of Susan Strong of Lincoln to serve as a county court judge for the Third Judicial District. The Third Judicial District encompasses all of Lincoln and Lancaster County.
"Susan Strong has an exemplary record of legal accomplishment, in both private and public service," Gov. Heineman said. "I am confident that Lincoln and Lancaster County will be well served during her tenure as a county court judge."
Strong, 46, comes to the county court bench from the Public Protection Bureau of the Nebraska Attorney General's Office, where she has worked since February. Her duties include prosecuting health care professionals for violating the Uniform Licensing Law, including substandard care, unprofessional conduct and unauthorized practice.
Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Strong had spent most of her legal career in private practice, focusing on areas of employment law, personal injury, product liability, breach of contract and malpractice. Her experience includes work at the Plessman Law Offices in Lincoln, as well as for Kobayashi & Associates and Sherman & Howard in Denver, where she had clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch.
Strong is a cum laude graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., having served as literary editor for the Pepperdine Law Review. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Colorado Bar Association. She also serves as an executive committee member of the Nebraska State Bar Association Women & the Law Section, a group she formerly chaired, and is a Master of the Bar in the Robert Van Pelt American Inn of Court.
She has volunteered her legal services to the Lincoln Hispanic Community Center and to the Nebraska State Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyer's Project. Strong has served as vice chair and a member of the Nebraska Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee on Inquiry and as a mentor for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Strong has also served as an assistant youth volleyball coach, Girl Scouts troop leader, neighborhood association president and remains an active member of Christ Lutheran Church.
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