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A deputy city attorney in Reno has been appointed to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Gov. Joe Lombardo said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Chandeni Sendall, who in 2015 joined the civil division of the city of Reno attorney\u2019s office, will replace Brittnie Watkins, who announced earlier this month that she would not seek reappointment<\/a> to the full-time three-member board that evaluates and makes recommendations on gaming license applications for consideration by the Nevada Gaming Commission.<\/p>\n The governor\u2019s office did not disclose Sendall\u2019s salary, but Watkins\u2019 2025 financial disclosure form listed an annual salary of $196,790.<\/p>\n The Control Board meets monthly, mostly in Las Vegas, but occasionally in Carson City.<\/p>\n \u201cWith her unique background in law and compliance, Chandeni will bring fresh insight and critical perspective to the board,\u201d Lombardo said in an emailed statement. \u201cI look forward to her leadership and contributions to gaming oversight in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n Sendall will begin her four-year term this week. Watkins announced at the Jan. 15 Control Board meeting that she would not seek reappointment after serving four years on the board, two months as interim chairwoman.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m grateful to Gov. Lombardo for this opportunity to serve the state of Nevada,\u201d Sendall said in an emailed statement. \u201cAlong with my legal background, I look forward to applying my educational background in economics and my work experience in the gaming industry as I begin this new role at the Nevada Gaming Control Board.\u201d<\/p>\n Sendall\u2019s history<\/span><\/p>\n Since 2015, Sendall has served as a deputy city attorney for the city of Reno, practicing in the civil division. Before her work in the Reno office, Sendall worked in civil and commercial litigation, served as an in-house legal intern for Reno-based Caesars Entertainment Inc., and clerked for retired Justice James Hardesty at the Nevada Supreme Court. While attending the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Sendall served as the editor-in-chief of the UNLV Gaming Law Journal. Before her legal career, she served for several years as an internal auditor for Caesars Entertainment.<\/p>\n According to Sendall\u2019s LinkedIn page, she was born in California, but moved to Nevada, at a young age. She attended the University of Nevada, Reno for undergraduate and graduate studies in economics.<\/p>\n She was also a member of the Nevada Wolf Pack women\u2019s golf team. While in graduate school, she served as a student ambassador, a graduate assistant in the Economics Department, and a volunteer mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada.<\/p>\n After completing her graduate studies, she began her finance career at Caesars. While working as an internal auditor, she enrolled in the part-time evening program at the Boyd School in Las Vegas. In law school, she interned for the corporate legal department at Caesars, worked as a summer associate at Travelers Insurance, and led the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.<\/p>\n \u201cMy position with Caesars\u2019 in-house legal department provided me an opportunity to learn a great deal about the legal issues that surround a major casino corporation,\u201d she said on LinkedIn. \u201cWhile working at Travelers Insurance I had the opportunity to draft numerous legal pleadings, discovery requests,and attend mediations and depositions.\u201d<\/p>\n Return to Reno<\/span><\/p>\n After graduating from law school in 2012, she moved back to Northern Nevada and began a clerkship with Hardesty. During her clerkship, she was exposed to diverse areas of law and was tasked with researching and drafting bench memoranda to assist the justices in deciding cases of first impression and matters of significant public policy importance before the court.<\/p>\n She then spent a year in the litigation department of Lionel Sawyer & Collins where she represented clients in civil and commercial litigation matters. In 2015, she moved to McDonald Carano Wilson LLP and continued a civil litigation practice before moving that same year to the Reno city attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Sendall will join two other legal experts on the Control Board, Chairman Kirk Hendrick, who earlier this week announced his plans to resign<\/a> from the board at the end of the 2025 legislative session, and retired Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad.<\/p>\n Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com<\/a> or 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n