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Fran Fine oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Fran Fine conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 04, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Fine talks about her career as an attorney and family court judge. She also discusses her activity in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Jewish education, women's philanthropy and the Las Vegas Jewish Federation.
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Fran Fine-Ventura portraits, 2016
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Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Photographs of Fran Fine-Ventura at the Smith Center, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 2015
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Fran Fine-Ventura posing outside of the Smith Center and in front of Tim Bavington's sculpture "Pipe Dream" in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Transcript of interview with Fran Fine-Ventura by Barbara Tabach, March 4, 2015
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In this interview, Fine discusses her childhood as well as the path that led to her career in law, which included working on a presidential campaign in New York City as well as several legal secretary positions in Washington, D.C., Texas and California, before eventually receiving her law degree from Golden Gate University. In addition, she reflects upon working on the infamous Jeff MacDonald murder trial in the 1970s as well as her experience becoming?and ending her service as?a Family Court Judge. Fine also discusses her community service work, particularly with the Women?s Philanthropy Board of the Jewish Federation and with Temple Beth Am.
Frances-Ann "Fran" Fine-Ventura is an attorney at the Fine and Price Law Group in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born September 28, 1951, in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Arizona at the age of eleven when her father sought new economic opportunities out West. Fine eventually moved to Las Vegas shortly after she graduated law school in 1983. Fine worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada in the early 1980s, then at several private law firms. From 1992 to 1998, she served as a District Court Judge in the Family Division of the Eighth Judicial District Court. Fine is involved in the Las Vegas community via the Nevada School of the Arts and the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Foundation in Clark County, Nevada. She has also been involved with the Women's Philanthropy Board of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas since 1984, and served as chair from 2014 to 2016. Fran Fine's brother is Las Vegas real estate developer Mark Fine. In this interview, Fine discusses her childhood as well as the path that led to her career in law, which included working on a presidential campaign in New York City as well as several legal secretary positions in Washington, D.C., Texas and California, before eventually receiving her law degree from Golden Gate University. In addition, she reflects upon working on the infamous Jeff MacDonald murder trial in the 1970s as well as her experience becoming?and ending her service as?a Family Court Judge. Fine also discusses her community service work, particularly with the Women?s Philanthropy Board of the Jewish Federation and with Temple Beth Am.
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Photographs of Jewish Federation Women's Division Leaders, image 06
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Left to right: Fran Fine, Sherry Sigesmund, Roni Epstein, and unidentified
Photograph of event hosted by the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 1998-2000
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Note on reverse: L-R Jay and Roni Epstein, executive director; co-chairs Fran Fine, Paul & Ellen Bodner; Ed Asner, guest speaker; co-chairs Sandy & Marv Snyder; David Dahan, President and Yaffa Dahan
List of past presidents of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 2015
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The list includes the past presidents and chairs of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, the Women's Division leadership, and the Jewish Emerging Leaders chairs.
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