Vivian Freeman — Scenic Nevada Heroe

Vivian Freeman is Reno's senior Assemblywoman in the Nevada Legislature. She sponsored legislation that allows people who wish to circulate petitions in front of public buildings to do so without any legal barriers. She also introduced this legislation in part to ensure that organizations like Scenic Nevada could get petition signatures just as they did in 2000 for their billboard initiative petition.

Freeman is a supporter of Scenic Nevada and has spoken in support of its objectives at several local government meetings. She has been instrumental in passing legislation important to the organization from her position on the Assembly Government Affairs Committee.

Freeman has served in state government since 1987 and has championed state legislation concerning health care, the environment and making local government proceedings more accessible to the public. Freeman is a retired nurse who has lived in Nevada for more than forty years. She was born in Idaho and holds a nursing degree from the University of Utah. She and her husband Richard have two grown children and one grandchild. Freeman says, "The average citizen has been losing power in their neighborhoods because of zoning decisions of local governments."

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