Rosen, Jacky, 1957-

Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen (née Spektor; born August 2, 1957) is an American politician and computer programmer serving as the junior United States Senator from Nevada since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019.

A native of Chicago, Rosen attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1979. While she was in college, her parents moved to Las Vegas, where she moved after graduating. She took a job with Summa Corporation and worked summers as a waitress at Caesars Palace throughout the 1980s. While working for Summa, she attended Clark County Community College (now the College of Southern Nevada) and received an associate degree in computing and information technology in 1985. She began to work for Southwest Gas in 1990 and then left to open her own consulting business three years later.

A former computer programmer with no political experience at the time, Rosen was asked by then–Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid to run for the U.S. House seat vacated by Republican Joe Heck in the 2016 elections. On January 26, she declared her candidacy for Nevada's 3rd congressional district. Rosen won 60% of the vote in the Democratic primary election and narrowly defeated Republican nominee Danny Tarkanian in the general election, taking office on January 3, 2017.

Rosen was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2018, defeating one-term Republican Dean Heller to become the junior Senator from Nevada. Her candidacy, announced on July 5, 2017, was endorsed by former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden. During the campaign, Rosen emphasized her support for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and criticized Heller's vote to repeal it in 2017. At the time, Rosen voted against Republicans' attempts to repeal Obamacare. Though Heller carried 15 of Nevada's 17 counties, Rosen's margins in the state's two largest counties, Clark and Washoe, was enough to provide her the victory.