It wasn’t a political machine or influential office-holder that directed Dallas Harris to apply for and eventually be appointed to a seat in the Nevada state Senate. It was a post on Facebook. “A friend of mine mentioned that ‘Oh, look, there’s an opening in Senate Districts 3 and 11.'” He posted the link for the application and mentioned he was thinking of applying. And I thought to myself, ‘Let me just click this link here,’” she said in an interview on the IndyMatters podcast. “I felt like this was the time to step forward, so I did.”

Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson announced full committee assignments for the 2019 legislative session on Wednesday. The announcement comes one day after the Clark County Commission appointed Assemblyman Chris Brooks and Dallas Harris, an administrative attorney with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, to fill two vacant seats in the chamber.