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!