Barbara O'Brien (politician)
Barbara O'Brien | |
---|---|
File:Barbaraobrien.jpg
Barbara O'Brien
|
|
47th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado | |
In office January 9, 2007 – January 11, 2011 |
|
Governor | Bill Ritter |
Preceded by | Jane E. Norton |
Succeeded by | Joseph A. Garcia |
Personal details | |
Born | Brawley, California |
April 18, 1950
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Rick O'Brien[citation needed] |
Profession | Charity president[citation needed] |
Barbara O'Brien (born April 18, 1950) was the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. She is a Democrat.
Contents
Political career
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
She was chosen as running mate by Bill Ritter, the Democratic candidate for governor in the 2006 election.[1] The Ritter/O'Brien ticket won with 57% of the vote.[2][full citation needed] As lieutenant governor she made education her signature issue.[3][4] Ritter chose not to run for re-election in 2010,[5] and O'Brien also stepped down at the end of her term.
Prior to becoming lieutenant governor, she was a speechwriter and policy advisor for Governor Richard Lamm.[citation needed]
Denver School Board director
Barbara O'Brien was elected as the at-large school director of the Denver Public Schools School Board on November 5, 2013, claiming 59.5% of the vote and winning over Michael Kiley and Joan Poston.[6]
The Denver Post newspaper stated that candidates who promised reform won the majority of local school board elections across Colorado in the November 2013 off-year election, and that O'Brien, as well as her fellow winners for Denver School Board positions, were reform candidates.[7]
Business career
As of March 2012[update], O'Brien was a senior fellow at the Piton Foundation, which uses its private funding to develop, manage, and incubate programs to create opportunities for lower-income families in Denver.[8][full citation needed]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Piton Staff, retrieved 2 March 2013.
Political offices | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Lieutenant Governor of Colorado January 9, 2007 – January 11, 2011 |
Succeeded by Joseph A. Garcia |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Use mdy dates from September 2011
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2013
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2012
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Columbia University alumni
- Lieutenant Governors of Colorado
- People from Imperial County, California
- Women in Colorado politics
- Colorado politician stubs