Background
Gibbons, Dawn was born on March 9, 1954 in Atlanta. Daughter of William Ralf Sanders and Dorothy (Fromshon) Snelling.
politician Radio host member of the Nevada Assembly
Gibbons, Dawn was born on March 9, 1954 in Atlanta. Daughter of William Ralf Sanders and Dorothy (Fromshon) Snelling.
She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor's degree in geological studies.
Following graduation, she owned and operated two wedding chapels in Reno, Nevada. Together they have one child, Jimmy, now serving in the United States Navy and currently at NAS Whiting Field in flight training. Following her husband's reappointment to the seat, she resumed her career in business until 1998, when she was elected to the Nevada Assembly, serving from 1999 to 2005.
On July 21, 2010, the divorce became final. Gibbons debuted her talk radio show, The Dawn Gibbons Show, on Fox News on March 30, 2010, with Nevada Assembly Republican Minority Leader Heidi Gansert and U.S. Senator Harry Reid as her first guests. Gibbons endorsed Reid in his re-election bid, saying he "was the only one to call to see how I was.
The only elected official to do that. He's a gift from God."
Gibbons is the Senior Vice President of Intermountain West Communications Company, and was a radio talk show host for Fox News, and co-hosted the Dawn & Jim Show and the Dawn & Rory Show. In February, 2013, she announced her engagement to Jim Hooban, President of the Independent Nevada Doctors Exchange.
Founder Volunteers in Service to Aging, Reno, 1985. Board directors Committee to Aid Abused Women, Reno, 1986-1988, Children's Cabinet, Reno, since 1992. Assemblywoman district 23 Nevada State Legislation, Carson City, 1991.
Member Soroptomist International (committee coordinator), Republican Women's Club, Republican Career Women's Club, Reno Chamber of Commerce, Junior League Reno (committee chairman education, membership and fundraising 1986-1988).
Married James A. Gibbons, June 21, 1986. 1 child, James A. Junior.