Terrance D Carroll was born on January 16,1969 and is an American lawyer, minister, former Colorado legislator and former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, the first African American ever to hold that office in Colorado.
13 Facts About Terrance Carroll
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Terrance Carroll was born and grew up in Washington, DC, the only child of a single mother who was a share-cropper's daughter.
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Terrance Carroll took a job as a campus police officer but switched his educational interest from political science to religion.
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Terrance Carroll graduated from the Iliff School of Theology in 1999 with a Master of Divinity degree and the Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Summer Leadership Institute in June 2000.
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Terrance Carroll continued his education, entering in and graduating from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver in 2005 with a Juris Doctor.
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Terrance Carroll is currently an attorney with Sherman and Howard LLC He is an opinion columnist for the Denver Post and a Distinguished Guest Lecturer in the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Redlands in California.
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Terrance Carroll represented district 7 in northeast Denver and has served as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Assistant Majority Leader.
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Terrance Carroll decided to run for speaker in November 2008, after the front runner for the job, Representative Bernie Buescher, was upset in his re-election bid.
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Terrance Carroll was sworn in as the 54th Speaker of the House at the opening of the Colorado General Assembly in January 2009.
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The Colorado constitution limits members of the Colorado House to four consecutive two-year terms, Terrance Carroll's term ended in 2011.
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Terrance Carroll has sponsored bills to charter new schools and to standardize the calculation of high school graduation rates.
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Terrance Carroll has worked on homeland security measures and civil and criminal justice issues.
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Terrance Carroll was the original sponsor of the bill that established the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway on Colorado's Interstate 70 to honor the African American flyers that served during World War II.