The Nevada Women’s History Project was founded by former Clark County State Senator Jean Ford to collect and disseminate information about Nevada women to historians and the general public through its website, publications and other public outreach.
Upon retiring from political life, Jean became Acting Director of Women Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1991. In the spring of 1992 she designed and taught a new course: “Nevada Women on the Frontier,” which dealt with the study relating to the historical and current aspects of women’s history in Nevada. In the course development she was amazed to find that there was a glaring absence of information specific to Nevada women.
THE GENESIS OF NWHP
By Janet White
From the NWHP News, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1996, page 2.
It began quite simply, a phone call or two, then a few more. Many, many questions, some with no answers. Some suggestions on where the required information might be found. Always more questions than solutions. Who was she? Where was she born and where did she live? When did she come to Nevada? Why did she come here? Who was the first Nevada woman to obtain the license, pass the bar, practice medicine, work her own mine, run her own ranch? The dry creek of information was flash-flooded with questions. READ MORE
NWHP LEADERSHIP
JULY 2024 – JUNE 2025
Executive Committee
- President: Sue Davis
- Vice-President: Joy Orlich
- Secretary: Marcia Cuccaro
- Treasurer: Donna Knapp
Appointed Officers
- Newsletter Editor: Carla Ford
- Membership: Mona Reno
- Website Biographies: Janice Hoke
- Website First Ladies’ Biographies: Patti Bernard
- Jean Ford Research Center: Patti Bernard
At Large Directors:
- Carla Ford
- Kathy Noneman
- Mona Reno