Helen Herr

Herr was chairperson of the East Las Vegas Town Board when she opposed a state plan to turn the Boulder Highway–a seventeen-mile link between the town of Henderson, Nevada, and Las Vegas–into a freeway. She held the post of chairperson of the East Las Vegas Town Board for ten years before she won her first election to the Nevada assembly in 1957, where she served five consecutive terms. In 1966, Herr ran for the Nevada senate and won, making her the state's first female senator. After twenty years in the legislature, she lost her battle for reelection in 1976.

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