About Beth

Professional Experience:

Representative Beth McCann is serving her first term as the Colorado State Representative for District 8 in Denver. She is a member of the House Finance Committee, as well as the House Health and Environment Committee.

Rep. McCann is Deputy Attorney General in charge of civil litigation and employment law at the Colorado Attorney General's office. A former Denver prosecutor, she was Denver's first Manager of Safety in the early 1990s under Mayor Wellington Webb. Rep. McCann began her legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Sherman G. Finesilver. She then served almost eight years as Deputy and then Chief Deputy District Attorney in Denver, prosecuting hundreds of cases, including child abuse and murder. As a prosecutor, she enforced the state's criminal and sentencing laws. She continued her career in private practice for seven years with the Denver law firm of Cooper & Kelley, P.C., earning a partnership in that firm in 1985.

Rep. McCann is one of the founding members and former president of the Colorado Women's Bar Association. She served as First Vice-President of the Denver Bar Association and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association. Rep. McCann also served on the Hickenlooper Transition Team as a member of the Public Safety committee. She has also been active in community and non-profit organizations, including serving as Chair and Co-Chair of the East High School Security and Safety Committee, Board member and Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee for the Denver Botanic Gardens, President of Seats for Kids, and a Board member of the Denver Legal Aid Foundation.

 

Rep. McCann was chosen Outstanding Woman of the Year in 2000 by the Women's Leadership Coalition and was named Outstanding Young Lawyer by the Denver Bar Association in 1985. She was also awarded an East High School Angel award in 2007 for her work as Chair of the Security and Safety Committee at East, working to keep our kids safe in school and for her help in coaching the winning Constitutional Scholars team.

Recognition and Awards:

  • McCann was awarded an East High School Angel award in 2007 for her work as Chair of the Security and Safety Committee at East, working to keep our kids safe in school and at school activities, and for her help in coaching the winning East High Constitutional Scholars team who won first place in the nation in 2007.

Education:

  • McCann earned her law degree at Georgetown University Law School.

  • She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies.

Personal:

  • Beth has lived in Denver for thirty-three years. She and her husband, Christopher, have two children, a sone Chris, 22, who recently graduated from Amherst College, and a daughter Lizzy, 20, currently at Amherst College as well. Their dog, Rascal, is nine.

  • She enjoys skiing, jogging, hiking, biking, theater, photography, politics, and travel.



Rep. Beth McCann
House District 8
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