Faye Griffin  |  J. Kevin McCasky  |  Kathy Hartman

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Faye Griffin
Jefferson County Commissioner, District 1

Faye Griffin was elected Jefferson County Commissioner (District 1) in November 2008 and was sworn in on January 13, 2009.  She is currently serving as Chairman Pro-tem of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners and the Jefferson County Law Enforcement Authority Board.  She possibly has the distinction of being the only elected official in Jefferson County history to be elected to three separate county offices – county commissioner, treasurer and clerk & recorder.

She is currently serving on the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District Board, the Head Start Policy Council, the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, the Criminal Justice Strategic Planning Committee, the Child and Youth Leadership Commission, the E-911 Board and the Noxious Weed Advisory Board.  She is an alternate on the Boundary Control Commission, the Jefferson Economic Council and the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority. 

Her election to the three-member Board of County Commissioners from District 1 caps a 35 year career with Jefferson County.  She first joined the county staff under Clerk & Recorder Norm Allen.  She worked in the Clerk’s office for 24 years, working up to chief deputy under Joan Fitz-Gerald, who chose her for that position in spite of the fact that she and Fitz-Gerald were from different political parties. 

Faye was elected Clerk & Recorder in 1998 and was re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002.  After coordinating numerous successful primary and general elections and modernizing and computerizing the Clerk and Recorder’s office, she ran for the post of County Treasurer in 2006.  She served two years of a four-year term as Treasurer before her successful bid for the Board of Commissioners seat.

Faye is a Jeffco native who graduated from Golden High School.  She and her husband, Walt, have three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.  Walt also was a county employee, who retired after a long career in the Facilities Division.  They live outside Golden in unincorporated Jefferson County.

 

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J. Kevin McCasky
Jefferson County Commissioner, District 2

Kevin McCasky was elected Jefferson County Commissioner (District 2) in November 2004, and re-elected in 2008.  Prior to being elected Commissioner, McCasky was elected and served as Jefferson County Assessor from 1998 - 2004.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners and the Jefferson County Law Enforcement Authority Board, and also served as the Chairman of both Boards in 2006.  He represents the county on the Jefferson Economic Council, the Boundary Control Commission, the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority (serves as chairman), the Noxious Weed Advisory Board and as alternate on the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Criminal Justice Strategic Planning Committee.  The West Chamber honored McCasky as the 2006 Elected Official of the Year, which was the second time he received that award and the only person in the Chamber’s 60 year history to receive the award twice. 

His current community activity includes serving on the Westerra Credit Union and Ralston House Boards of Directors and as Honorable Board Member of the Second Wind Fund.  He is also a member of the Denver West Kiwanis Club.

Previous community activity includes serving on the Boards of the Jefferson County Children’s Alliance, the Prospect Recreation & Park District and the Head Start Foundation.  Also, he served on the Sheriff’s Citizen Advisory Council and the Manning School and Madison High School committees that worked with the Jefferson County R-1 School Board to create two new option schools in Jefferson County.

Previous to joining Jefferson County, McCasky served on the staff of Congressman Joel Hefley in Colorado's 5th District and has worked as a Legislative Budget Analyst for the Joint Budget Committee of the Colorado General Assembly.

He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado with B.A.’s in Geography and Political Science.  He is married to Lori and they have two sons, Tyler and Nick.

 

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Kathy Hartman
Jefferson County Commissioner, District 3

Kathy Hartman was elected Jefferson County Commissioner (District 3) in November 2006 and was sworn in on January 9, 2007.  She served as 2008 Chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners and the Jefferson County Law Enforcement Authority Board.  She served as Chairman Pro-tem in 2007. 

Hartman was honored by Colorado Counties, Inc. (CCI) as the Freshman Commissioner of the Year.  CCI is a group that represents Boards of County Commissioners from more than 60 Colorado Counties.  She chaired CCI’s Metro Area County Commissioners (MACC) in 2008 and represented the MACC on the Metro Mayors FasTracks Committee.  She currently is vice-chair of CCI’s Health and Human Services Committee. 

In addition to her duties as county commissioner, she serves on the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), the Jefferson Center for Mental Health Board, the Community Corrections Board and the Noxious Weed Advisory Board.  She is an alternate on the Jefferson Economic Council Board, the Head Start Policy Council and the Boundary Control Commission.  Hartman was appointed to the Child Welfare Advisory Committee’s Training Sub-Committee, by Governor Ritter. 

For 16 years she had been the executive director of Stride, a non-profit agency that assists more than 300 homeless and low-income families each year in Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, helping them move from poverty to self-sufficiency.  Prior to that, she worked as an investment advisor for seven years for two major Wall Street firms.

Dedicated to public service, Hartman has been a member of the board of the Jefferson Center for Mental Health since 2004.  She also served on the board of the Tri-County Workforce Center from 1998-2004 and Jeffco Adopt-a-Family from 1991-1992.

A founding member of the Good News Coalition, she has been very active in community and civic organizations.  Among them are the Rotary Club of Golden, the Colorado Mountain Club and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an MBA from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Hartman and her husband, Bill, have been married for 13 years and live in south Jefferson County.  A Michigan native, she is the oldest of five children.