Ellen Knowlton, retired FBI agent and former Mob Museum Chairman of the Board grew up in Merced, California. She attended Sacramento State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business, later adding on an MBA from St. Mary’s.

Edmund Uehling is a real estate investor, politician, and supporter of the Las Vegas, Nevada gay community. He born on May 15, 1940 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Uehling moved to Boulder City, Nevada in 1943 when the Bureau of Reclamation hired Uehling's father to work in Boulder City as a civil engineer. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in public administration from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.