George Nicholaw is a former chairman of the California Horse Racing Board

California Horse Racing Board

The California Horse Racing Board was established in 1933 as an independent agency of the State of California, United States. The CHRB has authority over the regulation of horse racing and parimutuel betting at licensed California race tracks...

 (CHRB).

Nicholaw, the vice president and general manager of KNX Newsradio in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, was first appointed to the Board in 1992 by Governor Pete Wilson

Pete Wilson

Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

. He served as chairman of both the Security and Licensing Committee and the Pari-mutuel Operations Committee, holding great responsibility in the area of regulating racetrack operations.

Nicholaw served eight years as a member of the CHRB, and was elected to be chairman for the year 1999, replacing the outgoing long-term chairman Ralph M. Scurfield

Ralph M. Scurfield

Ralph Merle Scurfield, born 20 August 1928 in Pennsylvania, served on the California Horse Racing Board from 1991 through 1999, serving as chairman of the board from 1992 to 1999....

. Nicholaw retired as a commissioner in February 2000 when his second four-year term on the CHRB expired.