On Saturday, November 12, 2022, Nevada’s Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election for a second term. In a close campaign, the 58-year-old senior senator for the Democratic Party defeated Adam Laxalt, a former attorney general of Nevada.
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The current term of Cortez Masto began on January 3, 2017, the day she made history by becoming the country’s first Latina senator. In addition, the Democrat became the first woman elected as a US senator from Nevada after narrowly defeating Republican Joe Heck in the 2016 election.
Democrat The highest chamber of the United States Congress has never had a Latina member before Catherine Cortez Masto.
The University of Nevada awarded Catherine Cortez Masto a Bachelor of Science in finance in 1986. She was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 29, 1964.
After getting her BS from Gonzaga University in 1990, she pursued and obtained a Juris Doctor (a legal degree). When Cortez Masto was admitted to the Nevada State Bar in 1990, her legal career officially began.
She additionally practiced law in 1991 and 1994 before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. The senior senator has held positions as both a prosecutor and a civil lawyer at various stages in her career.
Later on, Catherine Cortez Masto worked for former Nevada governor Bob Miller and rose to the position of chief of staff. While working for Governor Miller, she met Paul Masto, a former US Secret Service member, who is now her husband.
When Cortez Masto ran for state attorney general in 2006, she had spent years working in government agencies up until her tenure as Clark County’s deputy manager (2002–2005). As the Democratic nominee for attorney general of Nevada, Cortez Masto defeated the Republican nominee.
The Democrat held the position of attorney general for the state from 2007 until 2015 after winning re-election to a second term in 2010. In 2014, Cortez Masto decided not to run for governor of Nevada. She did, however, make a bid for Nevada’s US Senate seat.
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The significant shift happened when Harry Reid, a former senator, decided not to run for office again in 2016. As a result, it paved the way for Cortez Masto to succeed Reid and ultimately triumph in a close election over Republican opponent Joe Heck. On January 3, 2017, Catherine Cortez Masto was sworn in as a member of the upper chamber of the US Congress. By chance, the Democrat was the first Latina to be elected to the US Senate.
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