Cheryl Lau was general counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1996. She was the Republican Secretary of State for Nevada, 1992-1995 and deputy attorney general of Nevada's Attorney General's Office from 1987-1991. In 1996, Lau was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress in Nevada's second district. Among her many affiliations, Ms. Lau served as the vice chair of the 1992 Republican National Platform Committee, secretary of the Republican National Convention in 1992, and chair of the National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy.