Board of Regents

McGrath was appointed to the Board of Regents in March 2025 by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo. She has been an attorney for over two decades. McGrath is a board member of Hearts Alive Village, an at-cost veterinary clinic charity in Las Vegas.

Villa is a math professor for the College of Southern Nevada (CSN). He has previously served CSN’s faculty senate and chair for the college’s math department and the business department.

Cain is a former senior staffer for Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV). He’s a decorated, disabled combat veteran. Cain also served in the Nevada National Guard.

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Brooks was elected to the board in 2020. He’s a managing partner at Brooks Brothers Bail Bonds. He is a U.S. Army veteran, worked for a private security firm overseas and serves as a mentor for the Veterans Treatment Court Program.

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Boylan was elected in November 2020 to the Board of Regents. He’s a former College of Southern Nevada professor. Boylan founded and was the director of the Center for Strategic Analysis, a nonprofit educational organization training first responders, law enforcement and military personnel.

Denis served in the state Senate from 2016 to 2022 and served in the Assembly from 2004 to 2010. He held leadership roles in the Senate, including the top position of Senate majority leader in 2013. He’s worked as an IT professional, including for the Nevada Public Utilities Commission.

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Goicoechea was appointed to the Board of Regents by Gov. Joe Lombardo in December 2024. Prior to that, he served in the Legislature for 22 years, first as an assemblymember and later as a state senator, until his term ended in 2024. He is the owner of Goicoechea Ranches and spent 16 years as a Eureka County commissioner.

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Arrascada was elected to the board in 2020. He has previously served as the board’s vice chair and led or served on several committees include the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee and the Academic, Research and Student Affairs Committee

Reed is the director of the Sanford Center for Aging in the UNR School of Medicine and as professor of community health sciences. He’s a former faculty senate chair, and former chair of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Council of Senate Chairs.