PERSON: Jacky Rosen

United States Senate

U.S. Senator for Nevada

Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen (born August 2, 1957) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Nevada since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the U.S. representative for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019.

Rosen was elected to the Senate in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Dean Heller with 50.4% of the vote. She was the only candidate to defeat a Republican senator that year. Rosen was reelected in 2024 with 47.9% of the vote.

Rosen was born on August 2, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, to Carol, a homemaker, and Leonard Spektor, a car dealership owner who had served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Rosen’s mother was of Irish, German, and Austrian descent, and her father’s family were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria.

Rosen attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1979. While she was in college, her parents moved to Las Vegas, where Rosen moved after graduating. She took a job with Summa Corporation and worked summers as a waitress at Caesars Palace throughout the 1980s. While working for Summa, she attended Clark County Community College (College of Southern Nevada) and received an associate degree in computing and information technology in 1985. She began working for Southwest Gas from 1990 to 1993.

Rosen has touted her efforts to “build a business,” but a Reno Gazette-Journal review of public records found no evidence that she held a state or local business license. According to Rosen, she ran a company between 1993 and 2002, of which she was the only employee. Her business served two main clients, Southwest Gas, which was Rosen’s former employer, and Radiology Specialists, a Las Vegas-based physician group that employed Rosen’s husband.

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