Kate Marshall
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Governors
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Kate Marshall served as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Governors in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Previously, she served as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 2019 to 2021 and as Nevada’s State Treasure from 2006 to 2014. Prior to entering public office, Marshall served at the U.S. Department of Justice where she earned a strong reputation of fighting white-collar crime and taking on big corporations. As a life-long public servant, Marshall spent two years teaching high school in Kenya as part of the Peace Corps. She grew up in a working-class neighborhood in California as the eldest of six children and worked throughout high school and college to earn a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley with the help of scholarships, Pell Grants, and student loans. Marshall is married to Elliott Parker, an economics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has two daughters.