Shelley Berkley

When Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s family moved West nearly five decades ago, they found economic opportunity and a better life in Nevada. Shelley’s father supported the family as a waiter at the Sands Hotel. That experience has given Shelley a deep sense of commitment to her community and is why she fights so tirelessly for Nevada’s families and their futures.

Working her own way through UNLV and law school, Shelley became the first in her family to graduate from college and later became a University Regent, casino executive, and U.S. Congresswoman.

Shelley was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 as the first woman to represent her district. Shelley is running for the U.S. Senate because she believes that Washington needs to start prioritizing Nevada middle-class families, not Wall Street special interests. If elected to the U.S. Senate, Shelley will continue working hard to make Nevada the clean energy jobs capital of the country, will work to create good-paying jobs that can't be shipped overseas, will protect Social Security against privatization schemes that would cut the guaranteed benefit and subject seniors to risk in the stock market, will stand up and fight for equal pay for equal work for women, and continue to lead efforts to ensure veterans like her father get the care they deserve when they come back from the battlefield.

Shelley would be the first female senator elected from Nevada.