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12 Facts About Dawn Gibbons

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Dawn Snelling Gibbons was born on March 9,1954 and is an American politician.

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Dawn Gibbons was a member of the Nevada Assembly, as well as the First Lady of Nevada from 2007 to 2010, until her divorce from Governor Jim Gibbons on July 21,2010.

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Dawn Snelling Gibbons was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to Nevada at the age of 20.

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Dawn Gibbons graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor's degree in geological studies.

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In 1991, Dawn Gibbons was appointed to represent part of Washoe County in the Nevada Assembly, filling a vacancy created when her husband resigned his seat in order to serve in the Persian Gulf War.

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Dawn Gibbons resigned from the state legislature in April 1991, allowing her husband to reclaim his seat.

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In 1998, Dawn Gibbons was elected to the Nevada Assembly in her own right, serving until 2004.

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However, Dawn Gibbons finished in third place behind Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller and State Assemblywoman Sharron Angle.

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On May 2,2008, Jim Dawn Gibbons filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility, citing an undisclosed incident in Reno and asked the court to determine whether he or his wife would live at the Nevada Governor's Mansion in Carson City.

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In court filings, Dawn Gibbons alleged that her husband had been having affairs with two women.

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Gibbons debuted her talk radio show, The Dawn Gibbons Show on Fox News on March 30,2010, with Nevada Assembly Republican Minority Leader Heidi Gansert and US Senator Harry Reid as her first guests.

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In 2017, Dawn Gibbons was appointed by Governor Brian Sandoval to the Nevada Transportation Authority, the state agency responsible for regulation of taxicabs, rideshare vehicles, limousines, tow trucks, and other similar vehicles.