Councilwoman Jeanne Robb
Elected President of the Denver City Council in 2008 and 2009, Jeanne Robb has represented City Council District 10 for eight years when she was re-elected for a third term in 2011. She is an over thirty year resident of the district which includes the Civic Center, Golden Triangle, Capitol Hill, Congress Park, Bellevue Hale, Cherry Creek, Country Club, and Alamo Placita neighborhoods.
Currently, Councilwoman Robb is the chair of Council's Land Use, Transportation, and Infrastructure committee and is a member of Council's Government and Finance committee, and Special Issues committee: National Western Stock Show and Redistricting.
She has served as chairperson of Blueprint Denver – the Council’s land use committee. She was instrumental in the creation of Main Street Zoning, the Colorado Colfax Marathon, new drive-through restaurant regulations, tighter panhandling ordinances, demolition review of potentially historic structures, and the Justice Center design and public process. For her work, she has been recognized with the Molly Brown Award from Historic Denver and the Woman of Vision award from the Commercial Real Estate Women.
Before serving on Council, she served as a neighborhood president, chair of the Cherry Creek Steering Committee, president of the Temple Events Center Uptown board, and on the boards of Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods, Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation, and the Denver Health Foundation. Years of civic involvement have fueled her passion for city life and the quality of our urban environment. She believes Denver must preserve and further maintain our urban legacies, including our close-in residential neighborhoods as well as our parks and parkways. She is an advocate for good urban design, great streets, wide sidewalks, and public spaces like Fillmore Plaza and Civic Center Park .
Personal Biography of Councilwoman Jeanne Robb
A resident of Denver’s District 10 for over 25 years, Jeanne Robb was elected to City Council in 2003. She joined the Council with a passion for Denver’s neighborhoods and our built environment. She brings a wide range of knowledge about city issues and processes.
Robb was also a citizen leader on city-wide initiatives including the advisory group for Blueprint Denver – the city’s land use and transportation plan, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, and the Denver Health Foundation Board. From 1996 to 2000, she served as a City Council aide in Council Districts 5 and 7.
While serving on City Council is her first experience as an elected official, Robb gained political experience by coordinating Susan Barnes-Gelt’s re-election for the Council-At-Large seat in 1999 and Board Chair Bill Elfenbein’s successful bid for RTD in 2000.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Robb taught high school in Chicago and New York City before moving to Denver in 1974. For ten years (1980 – 1990) she ran her own business as a writing consultant and instructor. Her clients included the Arvada City Planning Department, the Colorado State Patrol, Ampex Corporation, Jefferson County MIS, Public Service Company, Gensler and Associates Architects, Richardson and Associates (Lipper Analytical), Colorado Interstate Gas, and Van Gilder Insurance. She also worked as an election coordinator for the Colorado Electronic Election Pool, a consortium of Denver television stations. Her proudest achievement is raising three great kids – two of whom live in Denver and one who recently moved to Florida