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Nevada regents re-elect Page, Trachok to top posts

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 7, 2014 - 12:12 pm

RENO — The Nevada Board of Regents voted Friday to re-elect Kevin Page of Las Vegas as the board’s chairman and Rick Trachok of Reno as its vice chairman.

Page is a banker and investor who has served on presidential search committees at both UNLV and Nevada. He is seeking re-election.

Trachok is a former Washoe County prosecutor who taught law at UNR for 15 years and currently is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Both will serve their second terms until June 2015.

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