Career Highlights: Appointed chief judge, Court of Appeals, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, January 2020, associate judge 2012-2020; appointed chief judge, Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, March 2018; appointed chief judge, Court of Appeals, Bishop Paiute Tribe, March 201; appointed chief judge, Cedarville Rancheria Northern Paiute Tribe, February 2014; deputy judge, Colorado River Indian Tribes, 2013-20; interim tribal prosecutor/conflicts prosecutor, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Court, 2014-17; deputy district attorney, Alpine County, 2009-13; tribal prosecutor, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, 2013-14; tribal prosecutor, Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, 2009-13; adjunct professor of Trial Practice, UC Davis School of Law, 2006-2010; attorney, Karshmer & Associates, 2008; attorney, Monteau & Peebles, 2006-08; deputy district attorney, Yolo County, 2001-06; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 1994-2001.
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1992
Many judges have recently had to learn how to conduct court remotely, but Tribal Court Judge Patricia R. Lenzi has been doing it for years.
In fact, she said, it probably saved her life.
She had been the tribal judge for the Cedarville Rancheria of Northern Paiute Indians for just 90 minutes when the unthinkable happened. The tribe’s former chairwoman pulled out a handgun at a court hear... (continued)
