25 Facts About Jacky Rosen

Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Nevada since 2019.

Jacky Rosen was the only candidate to defeat a Republican senator that year.

Jacky Rosen was reelected in 2024, defeating Republican nominee Sam Brown.

Jacky Rosen was born on August 2,1957, in Chicago, Illinois, to Carol, a homemaker, and Leonard Spektor, a car dealership owner who had served in the US Army during the Korean War.

Jacky Rosen's mother was of Irish, German, and Austrian descent, and her father's family were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria.

Jacky Rosen attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1979.

Jacky Rosen took a job with Summa Corporation and worked summers as a waitress at Caesars Palace throughout the 1980s.

Jacky Rosen began working for Southwest Gas from 1990 to 1993.

Jacky Rosen has touted her efforts to "build a business", but a Reno Gazette-Journal review of public records found no evidence that she held a state or local business license.

Jacky Rosen's business served two main clients, Southwest Gas, which was Rosen's former employer, and Radiology Specialists, a Las Vegas-based physician group that employed Rosen's husband.

Jacky Rosen was sworn into office on January 3,2017.

Jacky Rosen was elected to the US Senate on November 6,2018, defeating one-term Republican senator Dean Heller to become the junior senator from Nevada.

Jacky Rosen's candidacy, announced on July 5,2017, was endorsed by former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.

At the time, Jacky Rosen voted in the US House against Republicans' attempts to repeal Obamacare.

Heller carried 15 of Nevada's 17 county-level jurisdictions, but Jacky Rosen carried the state's two largest, Clark and Washoe.

Jacky Rosen won Clark County by over 92,000 votes, almost double her statewide margin of more than 48,900 votes.

Jacky Rosen was one of only two non-incumbent Democrats, alongside Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to win election to the Senate in 2018.

Jacky Rosen is the 37th freshman member of the US House to win a Senate seat and the first woman to do so.

Jacky Rosen was reelected in 2024, defeating Republican nominee Sam Brown, a retired US Army captain.

Jacky Rosen was on Capitol Hill for the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol.

Jacky Rosen has been described as a liberal Democrat at times and as a moderate at others.

Jacky Rosen supports allowing citizens to buy into Medicaid as an alternative option to competing with private insurance companies.

In 2025, Jacky Rosen was one of 12 Senate Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote for the Laken Riley Act.

In 2018, Jacky Rosen was one of three US House Democrats to break with their party and vote to make individual tax cuts permanent.

Jacky Rosen has cited the philosophy of tikkun olam as a key part of her decision to enter politics.