Kathleen Collins Becker is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 13th district from 2013 to 2021, as Majority Leader from 2017 to 2019, and as Speaker from 2019 to 2021, as a member of the Democratic Party.
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On November 18,2021, it was announced that President Joe Biden selected KC Becker to be the head of the EPA for the mountain and plains region.
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KC Becker worked as an attorney for the United States Department of the Interior and later moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2002.
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KC Becker is married to Miles Kunkel, with whom she had two children.
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KC Becker was elected to a four-year term in a seat on Boulder's city council in 2009.
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KC Becker announced in 2013, that she would run for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 13th district which was held by retiring incumbent Representative Claire Levy.
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Levy resigned to become the executive director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy and KC Becker was appointed by a thirty-five-member vacancy committee to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation.
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KC Becker won with seventeen votes in favor and twelve votes against her and four of the committee members were absent, one recused himself, and another abstained.
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KC Becker won in the 2014 election against Republican nominee Michael James Ocevar.
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KC Becker defeated Republican nominee Kevin Sipple in the 2018 election.
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KC Becker was unable to seek reelection in 2020 due to term limits.
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KC Becker endorsed Judy Amabile in the Democratic primary to succeed her and Amabile won in the primary and general election.
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KC Becker was selected to serve as Majority Leader in 2017.
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In 2018, KC Becker was selected to replace Crisanta Duran, who was term-limited, as speaker of the House of Representatives for the 2019 legislative session and Alec Garnett replaced KC Becker as majority leader.