This series is comprised of administrative files created by SNAWA board members including past presidents, secretaries, and treasurers from 1979 to 2016. Materials created by SNAWA presidents include board meeting agendas, minutes, and notes and various records pertaining to organizing SNAWA luncheons and events, including CLE seminars.
Materials created by SNAWA secretaries include board meeting minutes, membership files, and information related to SNAWA bylaws.
Materials created by SNAWA treasurers include financial reports related to membership dues and expenses associated with events and luncheons. This series also includes some records on SNAWA’s tax exemption status as a non-profit organization.
Archival Collection
Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys Records
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Collection Number: MS-00808 Collection Name: Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys Records Box/Folder: N/A
A photograph taken by Las Vegas News Bureau at a reception in Las Vegas, NV in 1960. The photograph depicts the wife of the former Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson -- Bonnie Gragson on the left, the famous actor Cary Grant in the middle and Nevada Assemblywoman Eileen Brookman on the right.
It is evident that a keen wit and persistent tenaciousness to protect victims of crime have earned Judge Abbi Silver the reputation that elevated her to her current position as Chief Judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals. She is the first female to hold this position. Judge Silver is a lifelong resident of southern Nevada. She was raised in Boulder City, where her family was the only Jewish family at the time. Her father was a doctor and eventually the family moved into Las Vegas, where she graduated from Clark High School and then University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1986). Always an overachiever, she worked multiple jobs?waitress, Utah Jazz cheerleader, dancer?while earning her undergraduate degree and then her law degree from Southwestern University of Law, in Los Angles (1989). In this oral history, Judge Silver recalls being a law clerk for Honorable Earle White, Jr., joining the Clark County District Attorney?s Office and being assigned as the Chief Deputy DA for the Special Victims