Janine Hansen has a long history of service and activism at both the state and national level. In 1996, 2004, 2008 she served as National Ballot Access Coordinator of the Constitution Party. She has also served as National Treasurer and was re-elected to the position of Western States Area Co-Chairman at the 2024 National Constitution Party Convention held in Salt Lake, City.
Janine graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1976 with a degree in Child and Family Relations. Her public life has been a lifelong effort to promote family values. Her service includes:
Eagle Forum: State President of Nevada Families for Freedom the State Affiliate of Eagle Forum; Editor Nevada Families/Eagle Forum monthly newsletter since 1974; lobbyist for both organizations in the state legislature; Constitutional Issues Chairman; currently coordinating Eagle Forum’s national efforts to defeat an Article V Constitutional Convention including the Convention of the States and National Popular Vote.
State Legislature: Citizen advocate at the Nevada Legislature 1971-2021; instrumental in defeating the state applications for a New Constitutional Convention under Article V and the defeat of the related Conference of the States,
Independent American Party (state affiliate of the Constitution Party): State Chairman Independent American Party of Nevada, formerly Executive Director and National Committeeman; state legislature lobbyist; host of the radio talk show the Constitution and you during the 1987 Constitution Bicentennial.
Nevada Families Voter Guide: founder, publisher, and editor for every general election between 1988 and 2014.
Taxation: Northern Nevada Director Nevadans for Sound Government (Axe the Tax) sponsoring referendum to repeal the $836 million tax increase and an initiative to prohibit government employees from serving in elected office 2004.
Pro-Life: State Chairman of the Choose Life Campaign 1990 to stop a ballot question, which locked abortion into the Nevada Constitution. First testified opposing abortion in the Nevada Legislature in 1971; Co-Chairman of the Choose Life Coalition, which has sponsored a full-page pro-life ad with 400 sponsors in the Nevada Gazette Journal, Reno News & Review, Elko Daily Free Press for 32 years and previously organizer of the annual Choose Life Rally & Life Chain in Reno for 20 years.
Marriage/Family/Equal Rights Amendment: Initiative Petition Chairman for 16 of Nevada’s 17 Counties for the successful Coalition for the Protection of Marriage to keep marriage between and man and a woman, 2000; Pro-family elected delegate and Pro-family Caucus Chairman to the National Conference on Families in 1980 in Los Angeles; Chairman Pro-Family Coalition, which achieved a 68% victory, defeating the ERA on the Nevada statewide ballot in 1978; Nevada Chairman STOP E.R.A. 1974-1978.
Statehood: Executive Director of the Nevada Committee for Full Statehood which is working to restore jurisdiction over Nevada’s lands to Nevada and implementing the principles of the Tenth Amendment since 2000.
Patriot Act: Organizational member of the Nevada Campaign to Defeat the USA PATRIOT ACT.
Other: Named “Conservative of the Year for 2010 in Nevada” by Citizen Outreach; and is a member of ABATE of Northern Nevada (A Brotherhood Aimed at Education), a motorcycle organization working to protect liberty
Born and raised in Nevada and currently living in Elko, Janine is married, mother of four children (two of whom were homeschooled) and is the grandmother of sixteen. She raises heritage turkeys, chickens and enjoys gardening.