Justice Cameron McVicar Batjer was born in Smith Valley, Nevada in 1919. Justice Batjer talks in his oral history about rural life in the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II. He attended the University of Nevada and began a teaching career in rural Nevada schools. Justice Batjer enlisted in the U.S. Navy Seabees during World War II. After WWII, he attended law school at the University of Utah. After working for the Utah Senate, he returned home to Nevada to begin practicing law. After serving as district attorney for Ormsby County (Carson City) in 1967, then-Governor Paul Laxalt appointed Justice Batjer to the Nevada Supreme Court. He served until retirement in 1981, and was soon appointed by President Ronald Reagan as chairman of the U.S. Parole Commission in Washington, D.C., where he served for nine years.  

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