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Running unopposed, Eunice Hood became the second woman, following Edna Baker, to be elected to the University of Nevada's Board of Regents in 1918. She was one of the first women to be elected to a state office in Nevada. Hood did not run on a party ticket because the state legislature had made the position non-partisan in 1915. Hood's term lasted eight years until 1926. Hood was one of three women to be elected to the board while it was still a statewide office. After the Board of Regents became district positions in 1957, women had more success at gaining the office.
