DA employee named to Parole Board

Thursday, Sept. 2, 1999 | 11:15 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Tami Bass, a family support specialist with the Clark County District attorney's office, has been named to the state Parole Board by Gov. Kenny Guinn.

Bass will take over the $61,800 a year job Sept. 6, succeeding Wilson Tyler who resigned from the seven-member board.

Bass has been with the district attorney's office for more than three years, preparing child support cases for court and mediating child support issues. She has also worked as a legal assistant, judicial clerk and professor of contract law and property law.

"It is essential that members of the Parole Board have extensive legal experience and bring a compassionate and judicious approach to their duties. I've know Tami Bass almost her entire life and I know she exemplifies those qualifications," Guinn said.

Bass, a lifelong resident of Clark County, said this was a proud day for her.

"My mother instilled in me and my sisters the desire to strive for excellence in everything we do," she said.

Bass graduated from Eldorado High School where she was student body president and voted the most likely to succeed. She graduated from Tennessee State University and is Community Outreach Chairwoman of the National Bar Association and first vice president of the National Black Republican Round Table.