Gallegos elected chair of University of Colorado Board of Regents
Regent Glen Gallegos, 3rd District
Regent Irene Griego, 7th District
Grand Junction Republican to lead board, set agendas
BOULDER – Glen Gallegos, a Grand Junction Republican, today was elected chair of the University of Colorado Board of Regents.
The chair of the nine-member board sets meeting agendas, assigns regents to board committees and serves as spokesperson for the board.
Irene Griego, a Lakewood Democrat, was elected vice chair. The vice chair assumes the chair’s duties in his absence.
The CU Board of Regents is elected by the people of Colorado, making it only one of four states in America that elects university governing boards. All other Colorado higher education governing boards are appointed by the governor. Regents are elected from each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts, with two members elected statewide.
Gallegos is a former educator and retired president of operations at a family-owned construction company. He was first elected to the board in 2012 and re-elected in 2018, representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses large sections of western and southern Colorado.
Gallegos worked for 26 years as a teacher, coach, principal and executive director of instruction for Eagle and Mesa County school districts. He retired in 1997 and joined the family construction business, The Gallegos Corp., as president of operations, overseeing multiple projects and a workforce of up to 1,000.
Griego represents the 7th Congressional District. Most of the regents come from the Front Range, where the bulk of Colorado’s population lives. The Board of Regents is responsible for the overall operations and budget of the university, in addition to selecting and evaluating the president.
In 2016, Griego, as chair, and Gallegos, as vice chair, became the first Latinos to hold the board’s top leadership spots in the university’s history.
For more information contact:
- Ken McConnellogue
303.815.8481
Ken.mcconnellogue@cu.edu