19 Facts About Lucy Flores

Lucy Flores was born on October 24,1979 and is an American lawyer and former politician.

Lucy Flores unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014, losing to Republican nominee Mark Hutchison.

Lucy Flores spent months in juvenile detention after stealing a car.

Lucy Flores dropped out of Rancho High School, but passed the GED test.

Lucy Flores earned a JD degree from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2010.

Lucy Flores became one of the first Latina members of the Nevada Assembly, representing the neighborhood she grew up in.

Lucy Flores served on the transportation, ways and means, and legislative operations and elections committees.

Lucy Flores introduced an education bill to use end-of-course final exams in high school rather than Nevada's proficiency exams.

Lucy Flores helped to organize a conference of teachers and legislators on how to improve education success among Latinos.

Lucy Flores supports expanding early childhood education, and considers education her most important priority as a legislator.

Lucy Flores established a PAC, Impacto Fund, to help elect Latinos in the Southwest United States.

Lucy Flores believed Latinos were underrepresented in politics, and that there should be an effort to recruit and encourage them as candidates.

Lucy Flores was honored with the Excellence in Legal Clinics Award by UNLV in 2010 and the Hubbard Award by the Mexican-American Alumni Association of USC in 2007.

Lucy Flores has been affiliated with the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, the Nevada Council of the Blind, Seniors United, and the Stonewall Democratic Club of Southern Nevada.

Lucy Flores decided against seeking reelection to her Assembly seat for the 28th district, choosing instead to run for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada.

Lucy Flores took second place in the primary, with 7,854 votes to Kihuen's 12,221.

Lucy Flores continues advocating for progressive causes by serving on the board of directors of Our Revolution, a political action organization affiliated with Bernie Sanders; and Let America Vote, a voting rights organization founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander.

In March 2019, Lucy Flores wrote an op-ed for New York magazine's "The Cut" alleging that then Vice President Joe Biden "inappropriately kissed and touched her after he offered to help her with her 2014 campaign" while the two were at a Las Vegas campaign rally.

Lucy Flores stated that he walked up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and planted a kiss on the back of her head.