Micaela Moore was appointed City Manager/CEO of the City of North Las Vegas in April 2024, having served as the City Attorney/Chief Legal Officer since joining the City in 2017.  

With the City recovering from an unprecedented period of financial and political crisis, joining the City of North Las Vegas presented Micaela with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to merge her wealth of experience in and passion for business transformation with her desire to serve the public good. Throughout her time at the City, Micaela has been part of the executive management team developing and implementing the strategic vision to restructure and fortify the City. Micaela played a lead role in bringing significant projects to fruition, including solving a decades-old problem to bring water to the 18,000 acre Apex Industrial Park, as well as forming and bonding a special improvement district to add sewer and road infrastructure to previously undeveloped land, all of which already attracted new industrial businesses with many jobs. The strategy of growing a new tax base helped resolve the City’s long-term financial challenges, stabilized city operations, and spurred economic diversification.

During her tenure as the Chief Legal Officer, she managed all civil and criminal legal matters for the City. She and her team offered legal, business, and strategic counsel to the Mayor, City Council, Redevelopment Agency, North Las Vegas Library District, as well as all official boards, commissions, officers, employees, and departments within the City. She also oversaw prosecution of misdemeanor and infraction violations, including, but not limited to, domestic violence, battery, petty theft, driving under the influence, code violations, and traffic offenses that occurred within city limits. She supervised and managed all litigation and transactional matters handled in-house and by outside counsel, in all aspects of municipal law, such as land use, development, public finance, procurement, labor law, employment law, constitutional law, torts, transportation, public utilities, construction, compliance, risk management, ethics, open meeting law, and public records. Micaela worked to keep North Las Vegas in the strongest possible legal standing, thereby saving millions of dollars for essential services. She actively identified risk-generating activities and found solutions to reduce liability.

Prior to becoming City Attorney, Micaela was a partner at national law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, where she specialized in financial restructuring and bankruptcy, real estate law, business law, and litigation. She represented a diverse clientele of land developers, financial institutions, commercial businesses, business owners, and officers, in varied industries, including real estate, lending, retail, gaming, hospitality, entertainment, manufacturing, solar, and mining. Having worked on some of the largest and highly contested restructuring matters in the state and represented clients in different roles, Micaela has a unique ability to understand and tackle each party’s competing goals to negotiate and implement solutions to get the best outcome for clients as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Micaela earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School. Admitted to the Nevada and California bars, Micaela practiced law for more than 18 years.

Micaela has received numerous awards. She has been named a top attorney several times in the Legal Elite edition of Nevada Business Magazine, Super Lawyers Mountain States Magazine, and ALM’s “Women Leaders in the Law.” She was named a 2015 Rising Star by Las Vegas Business Press. Micaela is also rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell, which is testament that a lawyer’s peers rank her at the highest level of professional excellence.

Micaela serves the community through volunteering with the Junior League of Las Vegas and the Children’s Attorney Project through the Pro Bono Project of Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. She is on the board of the Southern Nevada Senior Law Program. Micaela is a graduate of Leadership Las Vegas, Class of 2018.

Born in the Philippines, Micaela is pleased to be the first Filipina-American to serve North Las Vegas as City Attorney, as well as City Manager. Her husband is a Southern Nevada native and they have three kids who keep them very busy with their many activities.