Brian Krolicki
38th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 20, 2007
Governor	Jim Gibbons
Preceded by	Lorraine Hunt
Born	December 31, 1960 (1960-12-31) (age 48) Warwick, Rhode Island
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Kelly Krolicki
Profession	Banker, Politician

Brian Krolicki (born December 31, 1960) is an American political figure in Nevada. He is currently the Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, elected in 2006. As the Lieutenant Governor, he presides over the Nevada State Senate, chairs the Commission on Tourism, and serves on the State Board of Transportation and the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition. Previously he served two terms as the Nevada State Treasurer. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Contents 1 Education 2 Professional Life 3 Public Life 3.1 State Treasurer 3.2 Lieutenant Governor 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Education

Krolicki is a graduate of Stanford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in Political Science.

[edit] Professional Life

Preceding his election as State Treasurer, Krolicki worked for Bankers Trust in New York City, and Smith Barney in San Francisco and Manama, Bahrain.

[edit] Public Life

[edit] State Treasurer

Krolicki was elected State Treasurer in 1998. During his tenure, Krolicki worked to make college education more affordable, and considered it "a cornerstone of his administration." He created the State Treasurer’s College Savings Plan and Nevada’s Prepaid College Tuition Program^[1], and oversaw the set-up of the Gates Scholarship in Nevada.^[2]

Along his work in higher-education accessibility, Krolicki obtained upgrades from credit-rating agencies for Nevada, saving taxpayers millions of dollars in interest payments. All rating agencies now consider Nevada just a notch below AAA, the highest and most coveted rating, and held by very few states. Krolicki was also the first State Treasurer in the United States to receive the coveted Certificate of Excellence in Investment Policy from the Association of Public Treasurers of the United States and Canada. Krolicki also formulated and implemented many investment programs that obtained tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the state.

On the national level, in 2002, Brian was unanimously elected by his peers to serve as president of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), which collectively represents over $1 trillion in assets. As president, he founded the NAST Committee on Corporate Governance and served as chairman of the NAST Foundation, which promotes financial literacy and education throughout the nation. He has worked hard to promote financial literacy in Nevada by introducing the Nevada Women’s Money Conference, a free event designed to provide the necessary tools and information to become financially educated. In May 2004, Brian was selected by his state treasurer colleagues to receive the Unruh Award, given to the nation’s most outstanding state treasurer. Most recently, in December 2004, Brian was again honored by his national peers in both the private and public sectors with the highly regarded Gritz Award for Excellence in Public Finance in recognition of his leadership and innovation in the area of public debt management.

[edit] Lieutenant Governor

In 2006, Krolicki was elected Lieutenant Governor of Nevada. He is currently serving a four-year term as lieutenant governor. In August 2009, after considering running against US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Krolicki announced he was seeking reelection to his current post.^[3]

On December 3, 2008, Krolicki was indicted on four felony counts. The charges are related to Krolicki's management of a multibillion-dollar college savings program in his previous position as Nevada's state treasurer. Two of the counts were of misappropriation and falsification of accounts by a public officer, and two counts were of misappropriation by a treasurer. He faces up to four years in prison on each of the four counts for a maximum of sixteen years. Krolicki says that there is no basis for the charges and that it is a partisan effort by Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.^[4]

A Las Vegas judge later dismissed the charges exonerating Krolicki and his Chief of Staff Kathy Besser.^[5]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Nevada Lieutenant Governor website

Political offices
Preceded by -	Nevada State Treasurer 1999-2007	Succeeded by Kate Marshall
Preceded by Lorraine Hunt	Lieutenant Governor of Nevada 2007-	Succeeded by incumbent

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