Chris Giunchigliani
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Chris Giunchigliani (b.November 27, 1954) (pronounced june-kil-E-on-e)[1] is a Clark County Commissioner for District E in Clark County, Nevada which includes Las Vegas. She is often referred to as "Chris G." [2]
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[edit] Biography
Giunchigliani was born to American parents in Lucca, Italy. The oldest of six children (three girls and three boys), Giunchigliani grew up in Chicago, Illinois.[3]
Giunchigliani attended Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri. She worked in retail, bartended and waitressed to pay her way through college, graduating in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in special education.[4]
After teaching special education in Shawnee Mission, Kansas for two years, Chris moved to Las Vegas, and worked her way to another degree, this time at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, earning a master’s degree in education with special emphasis on the emotionally disturbed. [5]
[edit] Political career
She served as president of the Clark County Education Association from 1983 through 1987 and as president of the Nevada State Education Association from 1987 through 1991.[6]
From 1991 to 2006 she served in the Nevada Assembly. In 2006, she was elected to the Clark County Commission.[7] Tick Segerblom replaced her in the Nevada Assembly.
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| Preceded by - |
Nevada Assembly District ? 1991 - 2006 |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by Myrna Williams (politician) |
Clark County Commission District E 2007 - |
Succeeded by incumbent |
