Sandra Douglass Morgan has seen a whole lot of adjustments in the 5 years since she was named to the Nevada Gaming Commission.

The identical 12 months she grew to become a gaming regulator, the Supreme Court cleared the path for legalized sports betting. Since then, 32 different states and Washington, D.C., have launched sports betting.

During that point, Douglass Morgan went from gaming regulator to chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board to the company board of administrators for on line casino large Caesars Entertainment. Now, she is president of the Las Vegas Raiders, making historical past as the NFL’s first girl of shade to guide a crew.

Douglass Morgan mentioned her Black and Korean heritage might have helped put her in the highlight, however she pointed to her work exterior the world of sports as being key to bringing range to the Raiders’ entrance workplace.

“It’s been exhilarating. I’m extremely blessed that I’ve been given these alternatives, , based mostly on my talent set and my expertise,” Douglass Morgan instructed CNBC. “It’s been an incredible journey.”

In 2018, when the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA , Douglass Morgan discovered herself in an advisory position, serving to to shape how different states adopted sports betting simply as the playing gold rush was starting.

“You had states and completely different jurisdictions … coming to Nevada and asking our crew, ‘How do you regulate sports betting? And what are your relationships along with your licensees and sportsbooks?'” Douglass Morgan mentioned.

As the groups and leagues attempt to navigate headline-making scandals and potential pitfalls with sports betting, Douglass Morgan has introduced huge information and expertise with accountable gaming and integrity.

She mentioned sports betting remains to be in its infancy and training about playing and all its guidelines is paramount for everybody in sports.

“Making positive that everybody — and it is not simply gamers, each single worker that is with a membership, whether or not it’s on the soccer crew facet, or the enterprise group facet — is conscious of the guidelines, is conscious of a few of the pitfalls,” she mentioned.

While sports and playing mesh and evolve around the nation, the nation’s playing capital has turn out to be a preeminent sports vacation spot of its personal.

For the first time, Las Vegas will host the Super Bowl in 2024 at Allegiant Stadium, the house of the Raiders, the metropolis’s first NFL franchise. Vegas is also eagerly awaiting its first Formula One race this fall, and is wooing an MLB crew, the Oakland As. It has already embraced its WNBA Aces and NHL Golden Knights.

The success of sports in Las Vegas feels private to Douglass Morgan, who hails from the metropolis and is elevating her youngsters there. At the helm of the Raiders she mentioned she may also help affect philanthropic and academic alternatives that enhance the high quality of life for her neighborhood.

And the historical past she’s making as president of the Raiders?

“I do really feel a way of accountability to be sure that I’m not taking this place as a right. I do know that simply being named the president can hopefully encourage, , whether or not it’s ladies and ladies and other people from a wide range of completely different backgrounds to know that there are alternatives for them to be in sports administration,” she mentioned.