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Brian Edward Sandoval  born August 5, 1963) is an American politician and attorney who is the 29th and current Governor of Nevada. A member of the Republican Party, Sandoval is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. On June 9, 2010, Sandoval defeated his GOP challengers (including the then-incumbent governor Jim Gibbons) to win the Republican nomination for the 2010 gubernatorial election. Prior to his service as a federal judge, he served as the Attorney General of Nevada, the youngest chairman of the Gaming Commission of Nevada and a state legislator. Sandoval was also the firstHispanic candidate elected to statewide office in Nevada.

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Sandoval was born in Redding, California, to Ron Sandoval, an FAA maintenance supervisor, and his wife Gloria (Gallegos) Sandoval, a legal secretary. A long-time resident of Reno, Sandoval is of Mexican ancestry. Sandoval graduated from Bishop Manogue High School in Reno in 1981, and attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and economics in 1986. He then went on to earn a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1989.

Sandoval passed the Nevada and California bar exams and entered private practice with several Reno law firms. In 1999, he opened his own law firm in Reno.

When incumbent Republican Jim Gibbons decided to retire to run for Governor of Nevada in 1994, Sandoval ran for the Reno-based 25th District of the Nevada Assembly. He won the open seat and won re-election in 1996. After he resigned from his seat in 1998, Gibbons' wifeDawn Gibbons, won the open seat.