Marcus Conklin
for Nevada
Biography
Marcus Conklin was born in 1969 in Hanford, California, growing up in that small California town. In 1992, he earned a B.A. from the University of Redlands in Economics and Political Science and in 1997, an M.A. in Political Science from Midwestern State University. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Marcus has been an avid swimmer since age 9 and he was a competitive swimmer in both high school and college. He was named the Senior Student Athlete of the Year in 1992 and was named a National Collegiate Athletic Association Post-graduate Scholarship winner in 1992.
Marcus moved to Las Vegas in 1998 after working in Beaumont, Texas, for five years. Since graduating from college, he has worked in the business staffing industry, and was a member of the Nevada Staffing Association. He is also a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
With a strong belief in community service, Marcus became involved in working with homeless youth. He was a founding board member and is currently the board chairman of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth. He has also done extensive volunteer work for the United Way and the American Red Cross, serving as volunteer water safety and first aid instructor for the Red Cross in Texas.
Marcus first ran for the Nevada Assembly in 2002, and has now served three terms. In 2007, he was selected to be the Assistant Majority Floor Leader of the Assembly. He also served as vice-chair of the Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee, and as a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Elections, Procedures, Ethics and Constitutional Amendments Committee.
During his tenure in the legislature, Marcus has championed consumer protection and ethics reform legislation. He was the author of Nevada’s Do Not Call legislation in 2003, and in 2007 he successfully sponsored legislation to penalize mortgage lending fraud, to better monitor gifts from the pharmaceutical companies to physicians, and new requirements for limited liability companies that give political contributions.
Marcus currently serves as chair of a special committee looking into both short term and long term solutions to Nevada’s housing foreclosure crisis.
Marcus and his wife, Mijanne, have been married for 14 years.
