• Nevada Assembly, 2011-2014; Nevada Senate, 1999-2009 (first elected November 1998-Nevada Senate, and November 2010-Nevada Assembly)—eight regular and eleven special sessions

• 2013 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Ways and Means (Chair); Commerce and Labor; Transportation

• 2011 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining (Chair); Commerce and Labor; Ways and Means

• 2009 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor (Chair); Energy, Infrastructure, and Transportation (Vice Chair); Taxation

• 2007 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation and Homeland Security

• 2005 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation and Homeland Security

• 2003 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation

• 2001 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Legislative Affairs and Operations; Natural Resources

• 1999 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Legislative Affairs and Operations; Natural Resources

• 2013-2014 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste (Chair); Interim Retirement and Benefits Committee (Chair); Legislative Commission's Audit Subcommittee (Chair); Interim Finance Committee (Vice Chair); Interim Finance Committee's Subcommittee to Review and Advise on the Development of Priorities and Performance Based Budgeting by the Department of Administration, Budget Division (Vice Chair); Legislative Committee on Public Lands

• 2011-2012 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee; Interim Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Early Intervention Services; Legislative Commission’s Audit Subcommittee; Legislative Committee on Health Care; Legislative Committee on Public Lands (Chair); Sunset Subcommittee of the Legislative Commission

• 2009-2010 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Nevada Legislature’s Commission on Special License Plates (Chair); Legislative Commission; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review Regulations; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review the United States Department of Labor’s Report on the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Program (Chair)

• 2007-2008 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Nevada Legislature’s Commission on Special License Plates (Chair); Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review Regulations; Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System; Nevada Legislature’s Subcommittee of the Legislative Committee on Health Care to Review the Laws and Regulations Governing Providers of Health Care, the Use of Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light Therapy, and the Use of Injections of Cosmetic Substances (Chair)

• 2005-2006 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System

• 2003-2004 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Commission; Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System (Vice Chair)

• 2001-2002 INTERIM COMMITTEE: Legislative Commission’s Committee to Continue the Review of Programs and Activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin

• 1999-2000 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Committee on Workers’ Compensation; Subcommittee to Study Domestic and Municipal Water Wells; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Study the Integration of State and Local Child Welfare Systems in Nevada

• Advisory Board on Maternal and Child Health, 2001-2010

• Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, 2007-2008, 2009-2010

• Perinatal Substance Abuse Prevention Subcommittee of the Maternal and Child Health Advisory Board, 2003-present

• Nevada State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision, 2001-2002

• Governor’s Fundamental Review Committee

• WiLL Pacesetter Award, 2005

• Legislator of the Year, Nevada State Psychological Association, 2003

• Nevada Women’s Lobby Outstanding First Term Legislator

• State Director, The Women Legislators’ Lobby (WiLL), 2006

• Executive Committee, National Labor Caucus of State Legislators

• Girl Scouts

• Las Vegas Interfaith Council

• Shop Steward, Culinary Local No. 226

• Southern Nevada Water Authority Citizens Advisory Committee on Water Quality

• Girl Scouts Girls Golf Club

• Griffith United Methodist Church