Bill Thiebaut is an attorney and politician from

Pueblo, Colorado Pueblo () is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 111,876 at the 2020 United States Census, making Pueblo the ninth most popu ...

. He was elected to four two-year terms in the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distr ...

, serving from 1987 to 1993, when he was appointed to the

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to fill a vacancy following the resignation of Larry E. Trujillo. Following his appointment to the senate, he was elected and re-elected to the senate in 1994 and 1998. In the senate, he served as

majority leader In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.

in the 2001-2002 session. In 2002, Thiebaut was a candidate for

lieutenant governor of Colorado The lieutenant governor of Colorado is the second-highest-ranking member of the executive department of the Government of Colorado, United States, below the governor of Colorado. The lieutenant governor of Colorado, who acts as governor of Colo ...

, running with gubernatorial candidate

Rollie Heath Stratton Rollins Heath Jr. (born December 28, 1937) is an American politician and former state legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado who previously served as the Colorado State Senate Assistant Minority Leader. Elected to the Colorado State Sen ...

. In the

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, Bill Owens and Jane Norton defeated Heath and Thiebaut. Following his service as a legislator, Thiebaut was elected district attorney of Colorado's Tenth Judicial District, which comprises

Pueblo County Pueblo County ( or ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,162. The county seat is Pueblo. The county was named for the historic city of Pueblo which took its name from the Spanish ...

, for two four-year terms, holding the office from January 2005 to January 2013. Prior to serving in elected office, Thiebaut served as the public trustee of Pueblo County from 1979 to 1986. After leaving the DA's office, Thiebaut has continued to serve on various committees, including the eleven-member State Transportation Commission, which he chaired.

Personal life

Thiebaut was born in 1947 in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label= Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The name “S ...

, but when he was very young, his family moved to Pueblo, where he was raised. He attended high school in

Cañon City, Colorado Cañon City is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 17,141 at the 2020 United States Census. Cañon City is the principal city o ...

. He and his wife Mary Ann have 15 children.

References

External links

District Attorney campaign websiteThiebaut's campaign history from the Colorado Secretary of State
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiebaut, Bill Democratic Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives Democratic Party Colorado state senators District attorneys in Colorado 20th-century American politicians 21st-century American politicians Living people People from Pueblo, Colorado 1947 births