• Office Sought: Representative, Nevada (3)
• Birth Date: May 23, 1950
• Occupation: Professor
• Web site: http://www.dinatitus.com/

Education

• College of William and Mary, BA
• University of Flordia, PhD
• University of Georgia, MA

Dina Titus was born in Thomasville, Ga., and grew up in Tifton, Ga. She moved to Las Vegas, where she currently lives, in 1977 to teach at the University of Nevada. Titus received a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary in 1970, a master's degree from the University of Georgia in 1973 and a doctorate from the University of Florida in 1976.

Titus teaches political science at the UNLV. She is an expert on atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site and the author of the books "Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic testing in American Politics" and "Battle Born: Federal-State Relations in Nevada During the 20th Century."

She has been a state senator since 1988, and state senate minority leader since 1993. Titus won the Democratic nomination for governor in 2006, and lost the race to U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons.

Titus is married to Tom Wright, a professor of Latin American studies at UNLV.