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Biografía de Ken Salazar
About Ken Salazar
 Ken
Salazar is Colorado's 36th Attorney General. As Attorney General, Ken Salazar
has led efforts in Colorado to fight crime, address youth and family violence,
combat fraud against the elderly, and protect Colorado's environment.
Ken is a fifth generation Coloradoan. He and his family have been ranchers and
farmers in the San Luis Valley since before Colorado was a state. His family
helped settle what is now Colorado and for generations before that farmed and
ranched in New Mexico.
Ken Salazar graduated from Centauri High School in 1973, attended St. Francis
Seminary, received a political science degree from Colorado College in 1977, and
his law degree in 1981 from the University of Michigan. Salazar also received
honorary doctorate of laws from Colorado College in 1993 and the University of
Denver in 1999 in recognition of his professional and community achievements.
Ken Salazar has been a farmer and rancher in the San Luis Valley, natural
resources lawyer, and small business owner much of his life. He and his wife own
and operate a Dairy Queen in Westminster, Colorado. He has served as chief legal
counsel to the Governor, executive director of the Department of Natural
Resources, and chairman of the Rio Grande Compact Commission.
As executive director of the Department of Natural Resources, Salazar protected
Colorado's water and crafted reforms for mining, and oil and gas operations to
provide greater public and environmental protections. He wrote the
constitutional amendment creating Great Outdoors Colorado, led the successful
campaign for its passage, and served as the first chairperson of the Great
Outdoors Colorado Board. GOCO is the most successful land conservation effort in
modern Colorado history. In addition, Salazar created the Youth in Natural
Resources program for thousands of Colorado's youth to work and learn about
Colorado's natural resources.
Ken Salazar also practiced water, environmental and public lands law for eleven
years in the private sector.
Attorney General Salazar has served on many boards and commissions including six
years as Chair of the Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, the Colorado
Water Conservation Board and selection committees for United States Attorney and
Federal District Court judges. He has served on many nonprofit boards. He is
currently a member of the American Farmland Trust President's Council and the
Board of Trustees of Colorado College.
Ken entered the Senate race on March 10th and quickly got the endorsement of the
Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and solidified the support of state
democratic leaders.
Ken and his wife, Hope, have two teenage daughters, Melinda and Andrea.
www.salazarforcolorado.com
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