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Biographical and Professional Information

  • Married, mother of four children, two of whom were homeschooled.  Grandmother of eighteen.  

  • Native Nevadan born and raised in Sparks. Moved to Elko, Nevada in 2005.

  • Graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Child and Family Relations from Brigham Young University in 1976.

  • Raises chickens and gardens.

  • Chairman STOP Question 1 ERA, 2022.

  • Named “Conservative of the Year for 2010 in Nevada” by Citizen Outreach.

  • Citizen advocate at the Nevada Legislature 1971-2025 and since 1991 a full-time citizen lobbyist for Nevada Families/Eagle Forum and the Independent American Party.

  • State President of Nevada Families for Freedom the State Affiliate of Eagle Forum. Editor Nevada Families/Eagle Forum monthly newsletter since 1974.

  • State Chairman Independent American Party of Nevada, formerly Executive Director and National Committeeman.

  • Western States Area Chairman Constitution Party.

  • National Constitutional Issues Chairman for Eagle Forum.

  • Engineered the unanimous rescission by both the Nevada Senate and Assembly of all previous Article V Constitutional Convention Applications.

  • Instrumental in defeating and rescinding state applications for a New Constitutional Convention under Article V and the defeat of the related Conference of the States, currently coordinating Eagle Forum’s national efforts to defeat and rescind Article V Constitutional Convention applications including the Convention of the States and National Popular Vote.

  • Founder, Publisher and Editor of the Nevada Families Voter Guide published every general election between 1988 and 2014.

  • Northern Nevada Director Nevadans for Sound Government (Axe the Tax) sponsoring referendum to repeal the $836 million tax increase and an initiative to prohibit government employees from serving in elected office 2004.

  • Organizational member of the Nevada Campaign to Defeat the USA PATRIOT ACT.

  • Executive Director of the Nevada Committee for Full Statehood which is working to restore jurisdiction over Nevada’s lands to Nevada and implementing the principles of the Tenth Amendment since 2000.

  • Initiative Petition Chairman for 16 of Nevada’s 17 Counties for the successful Coalition for the Protection of Marriage to keep marriage between and man and a woman, 2000.

  • 1996, 2004, 2008 National Ballot Access Coordinator of the Constitution Party.  Served as National Treasurer.

  • State Chairman of the Choose Life Campaign 1990 to stop a ballot question, which locked abortion into the Nevada Constitution.  First testified opposing abortion in the Nevada Legislature in 1971.

  • Co-Chairman of the Choose Life Coalition, which has sponsored a full-page pro-life ad with 400 sponsors in the Nevada Gazette Journal, Reno News & Review, Elko Daily Free Press and online for 36 years and previously organizer of the annual Choose Life Rally & Life Chain in Reno for 20 years.

  • Host of the radio talk show the Constitution and you during the 1987 Constitution Bicentennial.

  • Pro-family elected delegate and Pro-family Caucus Chairman to the National Conference on Families in 1980 in Los Angeles.

  • Chairman Pro-Family Coalition, which achieved a 68% victory, defeating the ERA on the Nevada statewide ballot in 1978.

  • Nevada Chairman STOP E.R.A. 1974-1978.

Janine Hansen receiving the Conservative of the Year award from Citizen Outreach Chairman Chuck Muth in 2010.

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Janine has lived in Elko County for 15 years. She was born and raised in Sparks and lived there until 2005. Photo taken at Angel Lake.

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