Quarterly Luncheon (April 17 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel) will be none other than State Senator Pat Steadman! Steadman was selected in May 2009 to fill a vacancy in the Colorado State Senate that occurred when former Sen. Jennifer Veiga announced her resignation from office due to her planned relocation to Australia.
At age 49, he has been a long-time resident of Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. He grew up in Westminster, Colorado, and graduated from Westminster High School, Regis College and the University of Colorado School of Law. In 2010 Steadman was elected to finish out Sen. Veiga’s term, and in 2012 he was re-elected to a full four-year term. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Joint Budget Committee.
As a lobbyist, he worked extensively to support public education, advance civil rights and civil liberties, protect a woman’s right to choose, expand worker’s rights, and defeat censorship and other far-right assaults on cherished freedoms. Over the course of 15 years of lobbying his accomplishments were many and included several significant pieces of legislation protecting the LGBT community that were sponsored by his predecessor, Sen. Veiga. Steadman has always been actively engaged in his community. He was appointed by Mayor Webb to the Denver Women’s Commission and by Mayor Hickenlooper to the Denver GLBT Commission, and was the first person to chair the Advisory Board for Denver’s Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations. As a senator, he continues to fight for progressive causes and give voice to those communities and issues that for too long have been marginalized and under-represented in the state legislature. In 2013 he was honored at the White House with the Harvey Milk Champion of Change Award for more than two decades of advocacy for equal rights.In other words, you do NOT want to miss DGLCC's next Quarterly Luncheon!
