Jerome D. Mack

Jerome D. Mack (a.k.a. Jerry Mack) (November 6, 1920 – September 26, 1998) was an American banker, real estate investor, political fundraiser and philanthropist in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was the founder and president of the Bank of Las Vegas and, later, the Valley Bank. He was the president of the Riviera casino as well as director of the Four Queens and Dunes casinos. He was a major fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party and active in Jewish philanthropy both in Las Vegas and Israel. He was one of the founders of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Early life Jerome D. Mack was born on November 6, 1920, in Albion, Michigan. His father, Nate Mack, was a haberdasher and later a banker.

Mack attended Boulder City Grammar School and graduated from the Las Vegas High School in 1938. It was the first bank to lend money to casinos in Las Vegas. Its first loan was to Milton Prell, who used it to build the Sahara Casino. Their bank was acquired by Bank of America for about US$380.5 million in 1992. He then served on the Democratic National Finance Council and the Democratic Party National Committee. Mack chaired a fundraising effort for the construction of the Artemus Ham Hall on the UNLV campus. Additionally, he served on a committee to establish the first board of trustees at his alma mater, UCLA. He was also the chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

Personal life Mack married Joyce Rosenberg in 1946. They had met at UCLA. They had three daughters: Barbara Mack Feller Levine. She married Norman Levine. Karen Mack. She married Russell Goldsmith, the chairman and chief executive officer of City National Bank. Marilynn Mack.

Death Mack died of cancer on September 26, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. His funeral took place at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, California.

A middle school bearing his name opened in 2006 in Las Vegas.