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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Elected officials receive leadership training awards
DENVER, Colo. – Wednesday, July 2, 2025 – During the Colorado Municipal League’s (CML) recent 103rd Annual Conference in Breckenridge, CML recognized municipal elected officials statewide who reached milestone levels in its MUNIversity program – a leadership program for Colorado’s municipal elected officials. This program was started in January 1991 by the League’s Executive Board to recognize the efforts of officials who go the extra mile to increase their knowledge of municipal government and their capacity to lead.
To reach the Graduate level of the program, officials must complete 100 credit hours.
Officials who reached this elite level were:
- Bruce Brown, City of Cripple Creek mayor pro tem
- Doug Glaspell, City of Montrose city councilor
- Josh Hardy, Town of Granby mayor
- Liz Heid, Town of Eaton mayor pro tem
- George Lantz, City of Greenwood Village mayor
- Rachel Medina, City of Cortez mayor
- Deborah Mulvey, City of Castle Pines council member
To reach the Leadership level of the program, officials must complete 60 credit hours.
Officials who achieved this goal were:
- David Adams, Town of Mead trustee
- Brooke Babcock, former Town of Mead trustee
- Justin Critelli, City of Salida councilor
- Matthew Fries, Town of Severance mayor
- Susan Gutowsky, City of Fort Collins councilperson
- Charles Harmon, City of Idaho Springs mayor
- Zo Hubbard, City of Fort Lupton mayor
- Dario Katardzic, City of Glendale council member
- Gary Lagrimanta, Town of Kersey, trustee
- Meredith Leighty, City of Northglenn mayor
- Joshua Rivero, Town of Parker mayor
- Bud Starker, City of Wheat Ridge mayor
- Mike Sutherland, City of Centennial council member
- Preston Troutman, City of Cañon City mayor
Fundamentals level requires completion of 30 credit hours.
Officials who achieved this goal were:
- Gerald Barber, Town of Ordway mayor
- Richard Barela, Town of Center trustee
- Stephen Barr, City of Littleton mayor pro tem
- Matthew Breman, City of Fruita mayor
- Katy Brown, City of Cherry Hills Village mayor
- Lisa Buesgens, Town of Hudson council member
- Kellie Case, City of Woodland Park mayor
- Brian Cerkvenik, Town of Fraser mayor
- Dawn Coen, Town of Lochbuie mayor pro tem
- Doris Crespo, City of Dacono council member
- Dan Dean, Town of Milliken trustee
- Todd Dixon, Town of Green Mountain Falls mayor
- Kristi Douglas, City of Commerce City council member
- Jeremy Fey, City of Central mayor
- Ethan Funk, City of Ouray mayor
- Bill Garcia, City of Fort Morgan councilmember
- Billy Giblin, Town of Nederland mayor
- Patrick Gleason, Town of Alma mayor pro tem
- Dana Greene, City of Leadville mayor
- Lewis Gregory, Town of Fraser trustee
- Tamara Gulde, City of Ouray councilor
- Marissa Harmon, City of Lone Tree mayor
- Alexis Hartz, Town of Bayfield trustee
- Abe Herman, City of Grand Junction council president/mayor
- Brandon Hill, Town of Akron mayor
- Rebecca Kaufman, Town of Winter Park council member
- Rich Kondo, City of Northglenn council member
- Dawn Krebs, City of Alamosa city councilor
- Sara Lancaster, Town of Limon trustee
- Brian Lane, Town of Milliken trustee
- Glenn Ledall, Town of Eaton trustee
- Eliseo Lopez, Town of Garden City trustee
- Shannon Lukeman-Hiromasa, City of Northglenn mayor pro tem
- Jon Mallo, City of Loveland mayor pro tem
- James Marsh-Holschen, City and County of Broomfield council member
- Brian Mason, Town of Wellington mayor pro tem
- Dakotah McGinlay, City of Steamboat Springs councilor
- Amy Miller, City of Fruita city councilor
- Linda Montoya, City of Federal Heights mayor
- Andrew Moore, Town of Erie mayor
- Catherine Nakai, City of Woodland Park mayor pro tem
- Chris Nichols, City of Craig mayor
- Peter Padilla, City of Brighton mayor pro tem
- James Parks, City of Fort Morgan councilmember
- Sarah Pearlstein, City of Federal Heights council member
- Jeannine Purser, City of Fruita city councilor
- Robert Reed, City of Golden councilor
- J. David Reed, City of Montrose mayor
- Audrea Rendon, Town of La Jara trustee
- Katherine Rodriguez, Town of Garden City trustee
- Hollie Rogin, Town of Lyons mayor
- Amy Schmisseur, City of Cañon City council member
- Marc Shay, City of Yuma council member
- Josh Smith, City of Ouray mayor pro tem
- Steve Sundberg, City of Aurora council member
- Manuel Tamez, City of Lamar mayor pro tem
- Tony Unrein, City of Thornton council member
- Paul Velasquez, City of La Junta mayor pro tem
- Steven Ward, City of Englewood council member
- Sherilyn West, Town of Larkspur mayor
- Jay Whittaker, City of Sheridan council member
- David Wiegand, Town of Wellington trustee
- Cindy Younglund, Town of Estes Park trustee
For additional information about CML’s MUNIversity program, please visit cml.org.
Colorado Municipal League (CML) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1923 and represents the interests of 271 cities and towns. For more information on the Colorado Municipal League, please visit cml.org, call 303-831-6411 or stay connected on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.