Christine Scanlan
For State House
Getting to know your Representative
In January 2008, Christine Scanlan was appointed as State Representative for House District 56, representing more than 75,000 Coloradans from Eagle, Lake and Summit counties.
In her capacities of Majority Whip and member of the House Education Committee, Christine has demonstrated leadership on a host of issues impacting the local communities she represents, and the state as a whole. In her first year at the statehouse, she carried the Governor’s landmark education reform bill. The legislation ushered in a complete redesign and realignment to Colorado’s education system, from pre-school through college. The reforms included overhauling the state’s curriculum content standards so they were more relevant, and making student assessments both more meaningful, and aligned with college admission requirements.
This past legislative session, Christine led efforts to reform teacher and principal evaluation systems while promoting educator effectiveness and leadership in schools.
Christine’s other key priority has been mitigating the devastation of the bark beetle onslaught in Colorado’s high country. Over the past three years, Christine co-authored an aggressive legislative agenda made up of more than a dozen bills and resolutions to assist mountain and Front Range communities implement forest health management and fire reduction strategies; expand protections for Colorado’s watersheds, local communities and vital infrastructure; and provide grants and economic incentives fostering market-based and local business solutions to the bark beetle epidemic to reduce the overall threat posed by wildfire and downed-trees.
In her professional life, Christine recently assumed the Director of Development role for The Keystone Center - where she has worked since 1994 - focusing on project development for the organization’s education programs. Prior to joining the legislature, Christine served as the organization’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Christine received her Bachelor of Arts in History and her Masters in Nonprofit Organization Management from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, Christine has served as President of the Summit School District’s Board of Education, President of the Mountain Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) serving 10 Colorado school districts, was an invited expert and member of Governor Ritter’s P-20 Council’s sub-committee on Preparation and Transitions, and was Vice Chair of the Interim Committee on Wildfire Issues in Wild Land-Urban Interface Areas. In addition, she is a member of the Colorado Tourism Board of Directors and serves on the El Pomar Foundation’s High Country Advisory Council.
Christine is an avid skier, having been a lift operator and ski instructor at Keystone Resort during her college years, enjoys hiking and snowshoeing and has lived in beautiful Summit County, Colorado since 1995 with her husband Tim and three daughters.
