Edward “Ed” Goldman was born March 19, 1951 in Rochester, New York and spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Israel as well as Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his first bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University and a second in Jewish Studies from the University of Judaism. Goldman later received a master’s degree in political science from California State University, and then a doctorate in education and higher administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, focusing on educational law.

Joy Snyder was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Snyder attended Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 and found work at Desert Springs Hospital. 1n 1979, she began work at Sunrise Hospital. Snyder retired in 2000.