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Clerk's Biography

Lynn Marie Goya has been serving as the elected Clark County Clerk since January 2015.

Since elected, she has:

Clark County, home of the famous Las Vegas Strip, issues approximately 80,000 marriage licenses per year to couples from every corner of the world. On average, four percent of visitors come to Las Vegas for a wedding. This famous industry generates over 18,000 jobs and contributes $3.3 billion in annual economic activity.

In 2015, when Goya discovered the 20-year decline in wedding tourism, she immediately took action, working with the legislature to create a special wedding promotion fund that generates over $1 million per year. She created a public/private partnership with the wedding industry that evolved into the Las Vegas Wedding Chamber of Commerce and works closely with Las Vegas Convention and Visitor’s Authority (LVCVA) and Travel Nevada. Pre-Covid, international wedding couples made up over 20 percent of those who came to Las Vegas to marry. In 2024, knowing the importance of the international market, Goya established a partnership with UK Destination Wedding and Honeymoon Magazine and, in 2025, with the Italian SPOSI wedding magazine.

Prior to being elected, Goya was a freelance journalist who wrote for local, regional, and national publications including USA Today, Audubon, Family Life and the Boston Globe, and co-authored two Falcon Press hiking guides with her son. She is an award-winning playwright, an Emmy-nominated writer; received the Frederick L. Ryan Award for Economics; the JCPenny Golden Rule Award for community leadership; and the EMERGE Nevada 2016 Alumni of the Year.

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