Selma F. Bartlett

Selma F. Bartlett has been instrumental in promoting community, real estate, medical, professional, and educational development in Southern Nevada for more than six decades. She has earned many accolades and awards, and has provided personal and financial support to many causes most important to her, including her loyal support for higher education at UNLV.

Selma received the UNLV President’s Medal in 2002, the Silver State Award in 2007, and was inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame in 2016.

As a result of her extensive community efforts, the Selma Bartlett Elementary School was named after her in 1992. She also was instrumental in founding the Nevada State College in 2002, and with the Dominican sisters and a local manufacturing plant, the hospital system now known as St. Rose Dominican Hospitals in 1969. She was one of the first female bank officers in the state of Nevada, and the state’s first female branch manager.

Selma moved to Henderson in 1954 when her husband, Troy, was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base. Her banking skills, first with Bank of Nevada and later with Meadows Bank, helped residential, commercial, and industrial developers transform Henderson from a small factory town to a modern full-service city.