Assemblymember Thaddeus J. Yurek, III

Minority Whip
Party: Republican

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2023 and 2025 (first elected November 2022)—two regular session and two special sessions
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Growth and Infrastructure; Judiciary
  • 2023 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Judiciary; Natural Resources

Other Public Service

  • Fourth Amendment legal instructor for multiple southern Nevada law enforcement academies, 2008-current
  • Henderson Municipal Court, Judge Pro Tempore, 2019-current
  • Hope International University, Board of Trustees, Member and Chairman, 2010-2020
  • Injured Police Officers Fund, Co-General Counsel, 2021-current
  • Lake Mead Christian Ministries, Governance Board, Member and President, 2009-2018
  • Las Vegas Police Managers and Supervisors Association, General Counsel, 2017-current
  • State Bar of Nevada, Fee Dispute Arbitration Committee, Mediator/Arbitrator, 2009-2020

Honors and Awards

  • Henderson/Green Valley Elks Lodge No. 2802, Officer of the Year, 2002
  • City of Henderson Police Department, Sworn Supervisor of the Year, 2006
  • Hope International University, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2015
  • Hope International University, Inaugural President's Alumni Servant Leader Award, 2024

Other Achievements

  • Nevada Peace Officers’ Standards and Training; Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Management Certificates
  • Co-wrote “The Automobile Exception in Nevada: A Critique of the Harnisch Cases,” published in Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008

Affiliations

  • Clark County Bar Association, Member, 2009-current
  • State Bar of Nevada, Member, 2009-current

Education

  • Hope International University, B.A., Church Growth with Emphasis in Preaching
  • Boston University, M.S., Criminal Justice
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, J.D.

Personal

Occupation: Law Firm Managing Partner, Retired Police Lieutenant
Recreation: Camping, Hunting, Spending time with family
Born: 1973, Anchorage, Alaska
Spouse: Carrie Yurek
Children: T.J., Tyler, Trey

Primary Sponsor

AB93 Revises provisions relating to public employees. (BDR 53-160)
AB132 Revises provisions relating to water. (BDR 48-586)
AB135 Revises provisions relating to certain tax exemptions for veterans and surviving spouses of veterans. (BDR 32-236)
AB162 Establishes a statewide database and Internet website for certain criminal records relating to domestic violence. (BDR 14-52)
AB195 Revises provisions governing boards of trustees of school districts. (BDR 34-237)

Co-Sponsor

SB319* Revises provisions relating to public employees. (BDR 23-953)