Tom Collins

500 Grand Central Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89106
702-455-3500

Biography  

Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins has been a resident of Clark County virtually all his life.  He and his wife Kathy have been married for 41 years and have two children, seven grandchildren and are expecting an eighth grandchild in May 2009.  A Western High School graduate, he attended Midwestern and Texas Tech universities in Texas as well as Clark County Community College currently the College of Southern Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The commissioner also is a PSI gradutate and completed the Nevada Power Company International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Apprentice Program.

Commissioner Collins was sworn into office as County Commissioner for Commission District “B” on Jan. 3, 2005, to serve a four-year term.  He was elected to a second four-year term that began on Jan. 5, 2009.

 In January 2009, Commissioner Collins was chosen by his fellow commissioners to serve in the following capacities:

• Chairman - Coyote Springs Water Resources General Improvement District
• Vice Chair - Redevelopment Agency
• Vice Chair - Board of Trustees of the Big Bend Water District
• Member - Family & Juvenile Justice Services Policy and Fiscal Affairs Board
• Member - Las Vegas Convention and Visitors’ Authority
• Member - Debt Management Commission
• Member - Las Vegas Events
• Member - Southern Nevada Water Authority
• Member - Colorado River Commission 
• Alternate Member - Southern Nevada District Board of Health
• Alternate Member - Clean Water Coalition

Tom also is a member of:

• Civilian Military Council
• Las Vegas Boy Scout Area Council
• Nevada Contractors Association
• National Senior Pro Rodeo Association
• Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
• National Finals Rodeo Committee
• Horse Council of Nevada
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 396
• Floyd Lamb/Tule Springs Preservation Committee
• Moapa Valley Rotary

Tom also has served on:

• Nevada State Assembly, 1993, 1997-2003 - five regular and four special sessions
• Metropolitan Police Committee on Fiscal Affairs
• Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board
• North Las Vegas Planning Commission for 7 years - left as chairman in 1992 to become a state legislator 

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