22 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 elected to the Senate in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Dean Heller.

Jacky Rosen was the only House freshman to win a Senate seat in the 2018 midterm elections and the only challenger to defeat a Republican incumbent senator in 2018.

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 emigrants 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 in 1990 before leaving to open her own consulting business three years later.

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 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 that would compete with private insurance companies.

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 is pro-choice and has been endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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