Las Vegas attorney Rosa Solis-Rainey was appointed to the Nevada Gaming Commission Tuesday, giving the panel four members. The commission has not had five members since December.
Solis-Raney replaces Sandra Douglass Morgan, who left the Gaming Commission in January when she was appointed chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Last week, the term of Gaming Commission member Philip M. Pro expired and the former federal judge did not seek a new four-year term. Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak will now have to name a replacement for Pro.
Rosa Solis-Rainey
The three-person Control Board is the full-time agency that monitors the state’s gaming industry. The board makes recommendations on licensing and other matters that are then referred to the part-time Gaming Commission for final approval.
“Rosa is a highly experienced litigator who has been involved in some of the state’s most complex legal issues over the past 18 years,” Sisolak said in a statement announcing her appointment. “I am confident she’ll make an outstanding addition to the Nevada Gaming Commission and support its mission of keeping Nevada the gold standard in gaming regulation.”
Solis-Rainey is the managing partner of Morris Law Group, where her practice includes representing businesses in all manner of commercial disputes, including litigating product liability claims, shareholder disputes, and professional liability claims.
She joined the Las Vegas firm in 2006. Previously, Solis-Rainey practiced commercial litigation and administrative/gaming law at Lionel Sawyer & Collins.
Solis-Rainey clerked for the late Justice Myron Leavitt on the Nevada Supreme Court and then-Chief Judge Pro on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
She spent nearly 12 years as part of the corporate management team at Boyd Gaming Corp., where she served as the director of internal audit, director of regulatory compliance, and as a member of the board of directors’ audit and compliance committees.
Solis-Rainey is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she received both her Bachelor of Science in public accounting and finance and her Master of Business.
She received her Juris Doctorate from the UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law, where she was a member of the charter class. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Howard Stutz is the executive editor of CDC Gaming Reports. He can be reached at hstutz@cdcgamingreports.com. Follow @howardstutz on Twitter.
