Background
Elaine Wynn was born on April 28, 1942 in New York City.
Elaine Wynn was born on April 28, 1942 in New York City.
She graduated from George Washington University, where she received a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science in 1964.
She has supported education causes, the performing arts and the visual arts They also co-founded Wynn Resorts in 2000. She served on its Board of Directors.
In 2015, she nominated herself to the Board, but she was not confirmed.
Wynn is a philanthropist, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation. She served as the Chair of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation, a fundraising organization for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
She also served on the Executive Board of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. Currently, she serves on the National Board of Directors of Communities in Schools, a non-profit organization which supports financially disadvantaged schoolchildren.
She was appointed to Nevada"s Blue Ribbon Education Reform Task Force in 2011, and on Nevada"s State Board of Education in 2013 and 2015.
Moreover, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President Barack Obama in 2011. She serves as the co-Chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Wynn is an avid art collector.
In 2013, she acquired Francis Bacon"s Three Studies of Lucian Freud for a United States$142.4 million, and loaned it to the Portland Art Museum.