Senator, Colorado State Senate, District 11, 2015-2019

Minority Whip, Colorado State Senate, 2017-2019

Representative, Colorado State House of Representatives, District 18, 2003-2011

Candidate, Colorado State House of Representatives, 2000

City Council Member, Manitou Springs, 1996-2000

Former Member, Education Committee, Colorado State Senate

Former Member, Judiciary Committee, Colorado State Senate

Former Member, Judiciary Committee, Colorado State Senate

Teacher/Director of Choirs, Coronado High School, Colorado Springs, retired

Member, Trails and Open Spaces Coalition, present.

Awards:

Best Local Politician 2007,2010 Colorado Springs Independent, Legislator of the Year Colorado Community Colleges, 2008,
Freshman Legislator of the Year, 2003, League of Conservation Voters, Friend of
Education, 2011 Colorado Education Association

Favorite Quote:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat. TR