The Nevada Women’s History Project was founded by former Clark County State Senator Jean Ford to collect and disseminate information about Nevada women to historians and the general public through its website, publications and other public outreach. Upon retiring from political life, Jean became Acting Director of Women Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1991. In the spring of 1992 she designed and taught a new course: “Nevada Women on the Frontier,” which dealt with the study relating to the historical and current aspects of women’s history in Nevada. In the course development she was amazed to find that there was a glaring absence of information specific to Nevada women. READ MORE

NWHP LEADERSHIP

JULY 2018 – JUNE 2020

Chair: Patti Bernard
Past Chair: Mona Reno
Vice-Chairman: Kathy Noneman
Financial Officer & Treasurer: Jon Hamel
Recording Secretary: Marcia Cuccaro
Corresponding Secretary: Christianne Hamel
Membership: Christianne Hamel
Jean Ford Research Center: [Rotating Chair]
Oral Histories: Patti Bernard
Newsletter: Mona Reno, Christianne Hamel
Washoe County School District Liaison: Lisa-Marie Lightfoot
Website Content Editor: Marcia Cuccaro
Editor, Website Biographies: Janice Hoke
Editor, Website First Ladies Biographies: Patti Bernard
Facebook Co-Chairs: Marcia Cuccaro, Mona Reno

THE GENESIS OF NWHP

By Janet White

From the NWHP News, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1996, page 2.

It began quite simply, a phone call or two, then a few more. Many, many questions, some with no answers. Some suggestions on where the required information might be found. Always more questions than solutions. Who was she? Where was she born and where did she live? When did she come to Nevada? Why did she come here? Who was the first Nevada woman to obtain the license, pass the bar, practice medicine, work her own mine, run her own ranch? The dry creek of information was flash-flooded with questions. READ MORE