Preceded by Dema Guinn Preceded by Jim Gibbons Name Dawn Gibbons | Succeeded by Jim Gibbons Role American Politician | |
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Succeeded by Kathleen Teipner Sandoval Spouse Jim Gibbons (m. 1985–2010) Education University of Nevada, Reno | ||
Dawn gibbons secures 250 000 check for nevada s newly jobless and 65 000 in food from vons grocery
Dawn Gibbons (born March 9, 1954) is an American politician from Nevada. She is the former First Lady of Nevada from 2007 to 2010, as well as the former wife of Governor Jim Gibbons; they divorced on July 21, 2010.
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- Dawn gibbons secures 250 000 check for nevada s newly jobless and 65 000 in food from vons grocery
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- Early and personal life
- Political career
- Divorce
- Subsequent career
- References
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Early and personal life
Dawn Gibbons was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to Nevada at the age of 20. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor's degree in geological studies. Following graduation, she owned and operated two wedding chapels in Reno, Nevada. During this period, she met her future husband, Jim Gibbons, then a Delta Air Lines pilot. They married in 1986. Together they have one child, Jimmy, who has served in the United States Navy.
Political career
In 1991, Dawn Gibbons was appointed to the Nevada Assembly, filling a vacancy created when her husband resigned his seat in order to serve in the Persian Gulf War. She resigned from the state legislature in April 1991, allowing her husband to reclaim his seat. Following her husband's reappointment to the seat, she resumed her career in business until 1998, when she was elected to the Nevada Assembly, serving from 1999 to 2005. During the 2006 election season, she was defeated in the Republican Party primary to succeed her husband in the U.S. House of Representatives, finishing in third place behind Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller, the eventual winner of both the primary and the general elections, and State Assemblywoman Sharron Angle. In that same election cycle, her husband won both the Republican primary and the general election to become Governor of Nevada.
Divorce
On May 2, 2008, the governor 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.
On July 21, 2010, the divorce became final.
Subsequent career
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 U.S. Senator Harry Reid as her first guests. Gibbons endorsed Reid in his re-election bid, saying he "was the only one to call to see how I was [after filing for divorce]. The only elected official to do that. He's a gift from God."
Gibbons is the Senior Vice President of Intermountain West Communications Company, and was a radio talk show host for Fox News, and co-hosted the Dawn & Jim Show and the Dawn & Rory Show.
In February, 2013, she announced her engagement to Jim Hooban, President of the Independent Nevada Doctors Exchange.