Kirk Hendrick was appointed as Chair and Executive Director of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) by Governor Joe Lombardo in January 2023.
Chairman Hendrick has been a licensed attorney in Nevada for over 30 years. He began his legal career in 1991 as a litigator with a prestigious Nevada law firm. In 1993, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) recruited Hendrick as a criminal prosecutor of a new Worker’s Compensation Fraud Unit. Hendrick transferred to the OAG’s Gaming Division in 1996, where he was promoted to Senior Deputy and then Chief Deputy of the Division that provides legal representation to the NGCB and the Nevada Gaming Commission. He was also chief legal counsel to the Nevada Athletic Commission for several years.
Hendrick returned to private practice in 2001, focusing on gaming and sports law matters. He then went on to join the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization as a key member of the company’s executive team from 2002 to 2017. After leaving the UFC, he founded Hendrick Sports & Entertainment, a consulting company in 2019.
Chairman Hendrick grew up in Las Vegas, and graduated from Chaparral High School. He then earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California.
Judge George Assad (Ret.) was appointed as a Member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board to a term beginning January 29, 2023. Judge Assad previous served as a judge on the City of Las Vegas Municipal Court for nine years, from 2002-2011. He created the first drug court program in Municipal Court, achieving much success in helping people get clean and sober.
Prior to serving on the bench, Judge Assad was a prosecutor in the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, where he was the lead attorney prosecuting numerous felony jury trials, including gaming fraud and cheating cases. The judge subsequently entered private practice, handling both civil and criminal cases. Most recently, he served as a Commissioner on the Nevada Transportation Authority for over a decade.
Judge Assad received his undergraduate degree from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. After working his way through college, he applied to Harvard Law School and was accepted; however, he was unable to afford their tuition, so he moved to Las Vegas for better job opportunities in order to one day attend law school. He worked in the casino industry for eight years as a busboy, waiter, bartender, twenty-one dealer, dice dealer, and floor supervisor. He then earned his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law.
The Judge considers himself blessed to have a wife, two daughters, a son, and two grandchildren. Having been raised by a single mom who emigrated to the United States from Syria when he was ten months old to escape Christian persecution and a dictatorial totalitarian government, he is extremely grateful to be a citizen of the greatest country in the world. Judge Assad is humbled and privileged to have served under Article One of the U.S. Constitution in the Executive Branch and Article Three, the Judicial Branch. He shares his life story so that kids from humble beginnings who may be disadvantaged and struggling in life may be inspired to achieve the American dream by studying hard in school, playing sports, saying no to illegal drugs, going to college, and pursuing their dreams.
Chandeni Sendall was appointed as a Member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board in January 2025. Prior to joining the Board, Member Sendall served as a deputy city attorney in the civil division for ten years at the Reno City Attorney's Office.
At the City of Reno, she handled complex constitutional and civil litigation matters, labor relations disputes and arbitrations, and day-to-day departmental client needs in the areas of Finance, Information Technology, Reno Municipal court operations, Code Enforcement, Economic Redevelopment, Human Resources, and Development Services. Before joining the City, Member Sendall practiced at the law firms of Lionel Sawyer & Collins and McDonald Carano after serving as a law clerk to Justice James Hardesty (Ret.) at the Nevada Supreme Court.
Member Sendall attended the University of Nevada, Reno earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics and was a member of the Honors Program and the Nevada Wolf Pack women's golf team.
Prior to starting her legal career, Member Sendall spent time working in the gaming industry as an Internal Auditor for Caesars Entertainment. While working as an internal auditor, she enrolled into the part-time evening program at the William S. Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, Nevada. During law school she interned for the corporate legal department at Caesars Entertainment, worked as a summer associate at Travelers Insurance, and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.