Pierron Tackes, JD/MPH, is the Director of Health & Social Policy at the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities. She brings a unique combination of legal and public health expertise, having advised state and local health departments on a range of issues, from strategic pandemic response to regulation promulgation and compliance enforcement. Most recently, Pierron served as Senior Deputy Attorney General for the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, where she played a key role in advising on the state’s COVID-19 response, work that earned her the Attorney General’s Office Rookie of the Year Award in 2021. Prior to her time at the AGO, Pierron served as a Deputy District Attorney for Carson City’s Civil Division and completed two judicial clerkships with Judges Scott N. Freeman and Kathleen Drakulich at the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada.
Pierron earned her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with a Minor in Public Health from The George Washington University. She then returned to Nevada to work in constituent services for Governor Brian Sandoval before pursuing a combined JD/MPH from the University of Oklahoma. During law school, she completed an Honors Clerkship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) focusing on Clean Water Act enforcement and completed a practicum with the CDC’s Public Health Law Program, where she studied the intersection of law and global health security. Having grown up in Carson City, Pierron is passionate about leveraging her legal and public health knowledge to serve and improve her community in Nevada.
