Steve Sisolak

Stephen F. Sisolak is the 30th and current Governor of Nevada since 2019. In 2018, he won the Democratic nomination for Governor. He defeated Republican nominee, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt in the general election. He is a successful entrepreneur and was a partner in the American Distributing Company.

About Steve Sisolak in brief

Summary Steve SisolakStephen F. Sisolak is the 30th and current Governor of Nevada since 2019. He previously chaired the Clark County Commission from 2013 to 2019. In 2018, he won the Democratic nomination for Governor. He defeated Republican nominee, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt in the general election, becoming the first Democrat serving in the Nevada governorship since Bob Miller left office in 1999. He is a successful entrepreneur and was a partner in the American Distributing Company, a venture that sells coffee cups, pens, and other promotional items to businesses. He earned a B. S. in business from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1974, and an M. A. in 1978. Both of his daughters attended UNLV. He has served as a member of the board of directors for the Southern Nevada University Medical Center and the Colorado River Commission for the University Of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He was sworn in as governor on January 7, 2019, and will serve until the end of the current governor’s term on June 30, 2019. His term will be his first as governor of Nevada, and he will be the first Republican to hold the governorship in the state since 1988. He also served on the Nevada Board of Regents from 1999 to 2008, where he served for 10 years. He served as the commission’s vice chairman before becoming chairman in 2013. In 2009, he opened The Harbor, an innovative juvenile justice resources center that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has prevented 3,000 youths from entering the criminal justice system. During his time on the Regents, he discovered that thousands of Nevada students had been wrongly charged out-of-state tuition and won refunds for these students.