Richard H. Bryan

"My aunt and uncle came to Las Vegas in the early 1920's. He was a car man for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1926 my father arrived in Las Vegas to complete his final year of high school and lived with his sister and brother-in-law. From that date, Las Vegas was always considered his home. He graduated from the University of Nevada, received his law degree from American University and returned to Las Vegas to practice law in January 1942. I was four."
-Senator Richard H.Bryan (1989-2001)

A native Nevadan, Senator Bryan started his legal career in 1964 as a Deputy District Attorney in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada. Two years later, he was named Clark County's first Public Defender. In 1982 he was elected to the first of two terms as Governor. As Nevada's Governor, economic diversification and the attraction of new businesses to Nevada became a priority. In 1988 he was elected to the first of two terms in the U.S. Senate and was the only member of the U.S. Senate to sit on the following committees: Finance, Banking and Commerce. Richard H. Bryan is a partner at Lionel Sawyer & Collins in the Administrative Law Department and a member of the firm's Executive Committee.