Nancy Lord is one of five candidates seeking the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney of Nye County, Nevada. She and three others are opposing incumbent Bob Beckett as he seeks his fifth term. See this story. Lord was the Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee in 1992.

There are also two Democrats running in the Democratic primary for the same office. The Nevada primary is on June 8.

Lord lives and practices law in Pahrump, which has become the largest town in Nye County. Nye County is the second largest county in the United States in area, and the county seat, Tonopah, is 167 miles from Pahrump. Nye County contains the location of the test site from the 1950’s for U.S. atomic weapons development.