Background
Pat Hickey is from a 4th generation Nevada family, whose Irish great grandparents came to the Carson Valley in the 1870s. Pat was born in Carson City and grew up at Lake Tahoe. He and has wife Shin have been married for 32 years and all four of their children; Johnmin, Shinae, Daemin and Hannah attended Bishop Manogue High School and have graduated from college. Pat’s 97 year-old Dad, George, lives with Pat and Shin at their home on Rosewood Drive.
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Pat is a small business owner of Pat Hickey Painting. “The notion of having to make a payroll before ever getting elected to public office--is not just some nice concept to me.” Dealing daily with the regulations, fees and taxes required of business, makes Pat keenly aware of the impact legislation passed in Carson City has on both employers and employees.
Pat has been a working journalist in the Silver State, getting his first job reporting on politics for KOH Radio through his friendship in Sacramento with Rush Limbaugh. Pat went on to have his daily political reports on the Nevada Legislature picked up by KNEWS Radio in Las Vegas and other stations in Carson City, Gardnerville, Fallon and Elko. Pat has written a conservative column for the Nevada Appeal (and here), wrote legislative cover stories for the Nevada Business Journal and was editor and investigative reporter for the Nevada Public Policy Institute’s monthly policy magazine; the Nevada Journal. Pat received his Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno and is teaching a course on journalism this fall at Western Nevada College.
Pat was elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1996 in Democratic majority District 27 by walking neighborhoods in the entire district and learning what voters cared about. He served on the Education, Government Affairs and Health and Human Services Committees. Believing in the concept of a “citizen legislator,” Pat left office voluntarily, choosing not to run for reelection and instead devout time to his business and family.
Pat and his family have lived in Assembly District 25 for the past 10 years at their home on Rosewood Drive, near Plumb and Arlington.