Sonya Jaquez Lewis

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Sonya Jaquez Lewis
Member of the Colorado Senate from the 17th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 13, 2021
Preceded by	Mike Foote
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 12th district
In office January 4, 2019 – January 13, 2021
Preceded by	Mike Foote
Succeeded by	Tracey Bernett
Personal details
Political party	Democratic

Sonya Jaquez Lewis is an American politician serving as a member of the Colorado Senate from the 17th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party and resides in Lafayette, Colorado.^[1] Previously, she served in the Colorado House of Representatives, representing the 12th district in Boulder County.

Early life and education[]

Jaquez Lewis was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the oldest of five children of Georgia Jaquez Lewis and Robert Lewis.

Career[]

Jaquez Lewis is a licensed pharmacist and former first pharmacy director of Colorado Medicaid, Colorado Access. She served for seven years on the Boulder County Board of Health. She worked as an adjunct professor at the Colorado School of Pharmacy and guest lecturer at the Denver College of Nursing.

In North Carolina, she founded the Durham County Women's Commission 6 and the NC LGBTQ Pride Marching Band. She served on the statewide Board of Directors of NC Pride Festival and was one of the national Co-Hosts for NGLTF's Creating Change conference in Durham in 1993, the first CC conference located in the South.

In 2008, Jaquez Lewis was elected statewide as the first out lesbian national delegate from Colorado to the Democratic National Convention. She has been a three-time national delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Colorado. She is the vice chair of the Colorado House of Representatives State, Veteran, and Military Affairs committee.

Lewis was elected in the general election on November 6, 2018, winning 74 percent of the vote.^[2]

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