• Nevada Assembly, 2008-2014 (first elected November 2008)—two special and three regular sessions

• Speaker pro Tempore, 2013-2014

• 2011 SESSION COMMITTEES: Education; Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining; Ways and Means

• 2009 SESSION COMMITTEES: Education; Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining; Government Affairs

• 2011-2012 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee; Legislative Committee on Public Lands; Legislative Committee to Study the Funding of Higher Education; Committee to Study the Funding of Higher Education's Performance Pool, Economic and Workforce Development, and Research Subcommittee (Chair)

• 2009-2010 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Commission's Committee to Study the Governance and Oversight of the System of K-12 Public Education; Legislative Committee on Public Lands; Legislative Commission's Budget Subcommittee

• Education Commission of the States, 2009-2010

• Distinguished Service Award, Western Association of Summer Session Administrators

• Dean, Continuing Education and Summer Term, 1989-2002

• President and Treasurer of the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators

• Founding Chair, Nevada Fair Housing

• Chair, UNLV Faculty Senate (two terms)

• President, Nevada Faculty Alliance (statewide office)

• Board Member, University Continuing Education Association

• President, American Civil Liberties Union, Nevada Affiliate

• National Delegate, American Civil Liberties Union

• UNLV Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences

• Mathematical Association of America

• Nature Conservancy

• Retired Public Employees of Nevada (RPEN)

• Nevada Association of Retired Americans (NARA)

• Sierra Club

• Las Vegas Natural History Museum

• Springs Preserve

• Board Member, Las Vegas Ice Age Park Foundation

• Cofounder, Former President, Member, CLASS! Publications, Inc.

• Las Vegas (UNLV) Chapter of the Nevada Faculty Alliance, President 2007-2008

• American Museum of Natural History

• National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

• English High School, Boston, Massachusetts

• Harvard University, B.A.

• University of Arizona, M.S.

• University of Washington

• Arizona State University, Ph.D.

• Paralegal Certificate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas