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Conway, Debbie
Debbie Conway was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on December 8, 1953. She moved to Las Vegas in 1989 after having lived in Chicago and worked in management for Avon. Conway was elected as Clark County Recorder in 2007. She is the first African American to hold that position in Nevada. She has also worked as a trainer at Levi Strauss, as Clark County's Business Development Manager, and as a producer/host of an economics talk show on KCEP radio.
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Coombs, Joel
Joel Coombs was born in Newport News, Virginia. His parents relocated to Nevada. Joel worked as a jeweler and land surveyor and then got a job building and designing roofs and floors at Truss Plant.
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Broxterman, David
David Broxterman had a long career with the Air Force and was a member of an Air Force association that helped push for an engineering school at the UNiversity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As of 2007, he is the administrative manager for the Clark County School District and works on green building certification for the district.
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Curley, Elmer F.
Elmer Curley is known simply as Curley. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada to work in the area of public service for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas library in August 1967.
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Smatresk, Neal J.
Dr. Neal J. Smatresk was appointed president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Aug. 6, 2009. Under his direction, UNLV has hit a number of milestones and academic achievements, positioning the university as a leader in the dynamic Intermountain West.
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Jensen, Alton Dean
Quoted from obituary notice from the Las Vegas Review Journal:
http://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=alton-jensen&pid=126675446
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