Pat Hickey is a fourth-generation native Nevadan from a pioneer family in Lake Tahoe. Besides being a successful businessman, he has worked as a journalist and editor for various Nevada news outlets covering the Legislature and Nevada politics. He was elected to the Nevada Legislature in 1997.
Mr. Hickey subsequently was elected by his peers as Assembly Minority Leader, where he championed educational reforms, greater accountability, and increased education funding for Nevada schools.
In the 2015 Legislative Session, Assemblyman Hickey chaired the Ways and Means Subcommittee on K-12 and Higher Education Funding.
Upon his retirement from the Legislature, Governor Brian Sandoval appointed Pat to the Nevada State Board of Education, where served until January 2017. Pat is currently a Sunday columnist for the Reno Gazette-Journal. His weekly “Memo from the Middle” column is the most widely read of local columns in the RGJ. Mr. Hickey is currently finishing a book for the University of Nevada Press titled, Sage and Spirit: Nevadans Explore Life and What Comes Next.
