Edna Caitlin Baker became the first woman to elected to a statewide office in Nevada in 1916. She was nominated to the Republican ticket, unopposed, and campaigned for a two year term to the office of the University of Nevada's Board of ...
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 ru...
Rita D. Millar, a Democrat, was elected as County Recorder of Mineral County, Nevada in 1916. Millar was born near 1885 in Hawaii to Alfred J. McCarthy. She was a widowed mother of three children; two boys and one girl.
Helen Bain was one of the first women to run for political office in Nevada. Bain was elected to Humboldt County's Gold Run District school board in 1882. This was seven years before the state constitution allowed women to run for school...