Kerry Tipper

Representative, Colorado House District 28
Chair of Law and Criminal Justice Task Force, NHCSL

Representative Kerry Tipper is a Colorado native who represents her hometown of Lakewood in House District 28. She serves on the Judiciary and Health & Insurance Committees and is Treasurer for the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus. She is a Uniform Law Commissioner (representing Colorado at the national level) and is Chair of the Law and Criminal Justice Task Force of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators.

Rep. Tipper focuses her legislative work in the areas of fair representation, consumer protection, criminal justice reform, and health care. Examples of this include: successfully passing legislation to end prison gerrymandering in Colorado, and mandating insurance coverage for infertility diagnosis, and treatment, as well as fertility preservation in the state.

Though born in Colorado, Rep. Tipper spent parts of her early childhood in Costa Rica and Mexico. From a young age, she alternated between the different cultures and languages of her parents. When she was six, she came back home to Colorado with her family.

She graduated from Jeffco Public Schools and went on to the University of Denver for college. After graduation, she worked as a Spanish interpreter at an immigration law firm, and later went on to law school at Northeastern to become the first attorney in her family.

As an attorney, Rep. Tipper represented victims of consumer fraud, discrimination and civil rights violations. She worked with trafficking victims and survivors of domestic violence and helped vulnerable families facing evictions and dealing with wage theft issues. Most recently, Rep. Tipper was an Assistant Attorney General here in Colorado, where she worked with state agencies that regulate health care and keep Coloradans safe. She left the AG’s office to run for the Colorado legislature.