Dan Gibbs
Dan Gibbs (born c. 1976) is a politician in the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
Dan Gibbs | |
|---|---|
| Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources | |
| Assumed office February 5, 2019 | |
| Governor | Jared Polis |
| Preceded by | Bob Randall |
| Board of County Commissioners of Summit County from the 1st district | |
| In office January 11, 2011 – January 16, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Bob French |
| Succeeded by | Elisabeth Lawrence |
| Member of the Colorado Senate from the 16th district | |
| In office December 11, 2007 – January 12, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Joan Fitz-Gerald |
| Succeeded by | Jeanne Nicholson |
| Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 56th district | |
| In office January 10, 2007 – December 11, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Gary Lindstrom |
| Succeeded by | Christine Scanlan |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Outdoor guide, legislative assistant |
Gibbs worked as an outdoor guide and as a staffer for U.S. Representative Mark Udall before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2006. In the legislature, Gibbs was noted for his focus on transportation and environment issues in the state legislature, particularly in response the fire dangers posted by Colorado's mountain pine beetle epidemic — Gibbs is a volunteer wildland firefighter and has served fighting fires in Colorado and California.
Gibbs was appointed to a vacancy in the Colorado State Senate in late 2007, won election to a Senate term of his own in 2008, and represented a multi-county region stretching from the Colorado Front Range near Boulder into Rocky Mountain ski country west of Denver. Gibbs rose quickly to chair the Colorado Senate's Transportation Committee, but announced that he would seek election to a Summit County Commissioner seat in 2010 rather than run for another term in the legislature. Gibbs was elected a Summit County Commissioner in 2010 and served in that office until he resigned in January 2019.