Kate Marshall

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Kate’s Background

• Kate Marshall was elected Nevada’s State Treasurer in 2006 after a distinguished career fighting financial fraud and corruption.
• Kate Marshall is FBI certified, having passed three FBI background checks with flying colors. We can trust Kate Marshall to be prudent and responsible with our state’s resources and tax dollars.
• Kate Marshall is a tested and proven leader. While working for the US Department of Justice Kate led large teams of financial experts to stop those who abuse and defraud the public and our financial institutions.
• Kate Marshall created Nevada’s Anti-Trust Division from scratch. She’s the one who cracked the financial fraud cases here in Nevada.

Kate’s First Term Accomplishments

• Kate Marshall has helped make college more affordable for Nevada’s working families. She’s re-invested in the Millennium Scholarship, renegotiated the UPromise contract to lower fees and add matching funds and created the new UGift program to help families save for college
• Kate Marshall has saved millions of taxpayer dollars. She’s saved $5.1 million (to date) by raising the Permanent School Fund Guarantee, $1.2 million by prohibiting banks from charging Nevada more than other states and over $1 million by signing a contract under the Renewable Energy Streamline Act.
• Kate Marshall also returned millions of dollars in unclaimed property to Nevadans when she upgraded the unclaimed property website and implemented Fast Track, both of which helped to triple the amount of unclaimed property returned to Nevadans, from $7.6 million under her predecessor to $25 million in 2009.
• Kate Marshall capably managed Nevada’s state finances when, in 2008, the state was faced with the doomsday scenario of cutting vital services and layoffs, Marshall found the funding and established a line of credit to avoid layoffs and cuts.

Kate’s Record of Integrity

• Kate Marshall earned national recognition and respect when the Nation’s State Treasurers elected her Treasurer for the National Association of State Treasurer (NAST). Kate will serve as NAST President in two years.
• Kate Marshall restored honesty, integrity and financial prudence in our State Treasurer’s Office. She accomplished a bi-partisan audit of the state treasurer’s office, which uncovered $6.1 million in fees that had been collected and spent by the previous administration, without legislative approval.
• Kate Marshall has made solid decisions to protect and keep Nevada moving forward. She is respected here in Nevada and across the country for her innovative, cost saving and financially prudent solutions to the economic problems we face.
• Kate Marshall launched her re-election campaign for a second term as Nevada’s State Treasurer and is running an aggressive campaign based on experience, integrity and accomplishment.