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Representative David Balmer
Assistant House Minority Leader
Republican, Arapahoe County
DavidBalmer.com
Representative Balmer was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2004 and re-elected to a second term in 2006. His House Republican colleagues elected him to serve as Assistant House Minority Leader. Representative Balmer serves on the House Business Affairs and Legislative Council Committees.
In his real job, Rep. Balmer is a consultant specializing in brownfield redevelopment. From 1993-2007, he worked as a Senior Manager with Cherokee Investment Partners, a brownfield redevelopment firm. Cherokee specializes in the acquisition and remediation of environmentally contaminated properties. Since 1990, Cherokee has purchased over 320 sites across North America and Europe including the former Gates Rubber manufacturing plant at Interstate 25 and Broadway.
Additionally, Rep. Balmer is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has served in deployments to Afghanistan and Bosnia. Since moving to Colorado in 1996, he has been active in his church and with various non-profit charities. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Balmer served on the Board of Trustees of Warren Village, a non-profit community in central Denver, which houses 93 previously homeless single mothers. He also tutored an elementary school boy for 2 years through the D.U. Bridge Project. Rep. Balmer served for 3 years on the Accountability Committee for Fox Hollow Elementary School, part of the Cherry Creek School System. In 1999, he was honored with the Denver Business Journal's Forty Under 40 award, which recognizes Denver's top 40 young business leaders. He earned a JD from Wake Forest Law School and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Balmer and his wife Karen have a 14-year-old daughter, Laura.
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Representative David BalmerAssistant House Minority Leader
Republican, Arapahoe County
DavidBalmer.com
Representative Balmer was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2004 and re-elected to a second term in 2006. His House Republican colleagues elected him to serve as Assistant House Minority Leader. Representative Balmer serves on the House Business Affairs and Legislative Council Committees.
In his real job, Rep. Balmer is a consultant specializing in brownfield redevelopment. From 1993-2007, he worked as a Senior Manager with Cherokee Investment Partners, a brownfield redevelopment firm. Cherokee specializes in the acquisition and remediation of environmentally contaminated properties. Since 1990, Cherokee has purchased over 320 sites across North America and Europe including the former Gates Rubber manufacturing plant at Interstate 25 and Broadway.
Additionally, Rep. Balmer is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has served in deployments to Afghanistan and Bosnia. Since moving to Colorado in 1996, he has been active in his church and with various non-profit charities. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Balmer served on the Board of Trustees of Warren Village, a non-profit community in central Denver, which houses 93 previously homeless single mothers. He also tutored an elementary school boy for 2 years through the D.U. Bridge Project. Rep. Balmer served for 3 years on the Accountability Committee for Fox Hollow Elementary School, part of the Cherry Creek School System. In 1999, he was honored with the Denver Business Journal's Forty Under 40 award, which recognizes Denver's top 40 young business leaders. He earned a JD from Wake Forest Law School and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Balmer and his wife Karen have a 14-year-old daughter, Laura.
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