Del Papa assistant Cathcart dies at 52

Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000 | 10:30 a.m.

SUN CAPITAL BUREAU

CARSON CITY -- Special Assistant Attorney General Anne Cathcart, who represented Nevada in the national tobacco settlement that will bring the state hundreds of millions of dollars in the next 20 years, died Tuesday in a Reno hospital.

She was 52 years old and suffered from leukemia. She had been admitted to the hospital on Monday.

Cathcart started her career with the attorney general's office in 1988 as a legal researcher and was sworn in as a deputy attorney general in 1990. Prior to the tobacco settlement case, she was involved in an effort to reduce frivolous suits by prison inmates. As a result of her efforts and those of others, the number of inmate suits has declined by 66 percent.

She was Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa's lobbyist at the 1999 Legislature.

Survivors include her husband, Dr. Robert Bertrando M.D., daughters Grace and Christine Crosley and stepsons Neil and Marc Bertrando.

Services are pending.

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