Cheri Jahn | |
State Senate: | Colorado |
State: | Colorado |
District: | 20th |
Term Start: | January 2011[1] |
Term End: | January 4, 2018 |
Preceded: | Moe Keller |
Succeeded: | Jessie Danielson |
Office2: | Member of the Colorado House of Representativesfrom the 24th district |
Term Start2: | January 2001 |
Term End2: | January 2009 |
Successor2: | Sue Schafer |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1953 |
Birth Place: | Sterling, Colorado |
Profession: | Small Business Owner |
Otherparty: | Democratic (until 2017) |
Party: | Independent (since 2017) |
Cheri Jahn (born July 12, 1953) is a politician from Colorado. She served in both the State Senate and the State House of Representatives. While serving in the senate, she switched her party from Democrat to Independent[2] In the Colorado Senate, she represented the 20th district from 2011 until 2019. Her district encompassed the city of Wheat Ridge, Colorado.[3] Previously she was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2001 through 2008.
Jahn was elected to the State House in 2000, where she represented Wheat Ridge. She was sworn into her first term in the State Senate in 2011.[4] On December 29, 2017, Jahn announced on Facebook she was switching her political affiliation from Democratic to unaffiliated.
In the 2011 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Jahn Vice-chaired the Agricultural & Natural Resources Committee, and a member of the Finance and the Business, Labor and Technology Committees.[5]
Jahn obtained her Paralegal Degree from the Community College of Denver in 2003.[6]
Jahn was the owner of Colorado Housekeeping Services.
Jahn has been a part of a number of organizations which include:
Jahn is single but has three children and together they live in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.