Board of Education post filled

Tuesday, May 2, 2000 | 10:49 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Gov. Kenny Guinn today named retired educator Marvin Iverson of Las Vegas to the state Board of Education.

Iverson, who retired in December 1994 from the Clark County School District, succeeds Bill Hanlon, who resigned because he is moving out of his district in Clark County.

Iverson, who runs a financial services business, Advantage Resources, held a variety of posts in the school district through the years. He taught at Jefferson Elementary School, served as principal of C.C. Ronnow Elementary School for four years, then became curriculum director, director of schools and assistant superintendent in the school district.

In 1980 he moved to Saudi Arabia, where he was associate superintendent of the Arabian American Oil Company Schools and then returned to Las Vegas in 1985 to become an area superintendent in the school district, a job he held for about nine years. He retired from the district as executive director of systems design and staff development after 1 1/2 years in that job.

After his retirement, Iverson was a consultant to the school district from 1995 to 1997.

Iverson, 62, was inducted into the school district's Educational Excellence Hall of Fame and received national recognition for developing Mirage Resort Inc.'s Leadership Training Series.