Bill Cadman

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Bill Cadman
Member of the Colorado State Senate from the 10th district
Incumbent
Assumed office  December 11, 2007
Preceded by	Ron May
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 15th district
In office January 10, 2001 – December 10, 2007
Preceded by	Ron May
Succeeded by	Douglas Bruce
Born	October 4, 1960 Hollywood, Maryland
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Lisa

Bill Lee Cadman (born October 4, 1960) is a Colorado legislator. First elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 200, Cadman was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Colorado State Senate in 2007. He currently represents Senate District 10, which covers eastern Colorado Springs, Colorado and rural eastern El Paso County.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Born in Hollywood, Maryland, Cadman earned a bachelor's degree from California State University in 1989 before settling in Colorado. Cadman worked as the office manager for U.S. Representative Joel Hefley from 1994 to 2000. From 1996 to 1998, Cadman was a board member of the Colorado Republican Party. Cadman is married; he and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Austin and Alex.^[2]

In 2000, he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, representing House District 15, which covered eastern Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[3] Cadman rose to become House Majority Whip during the 2003-2004 session.^[4]. Cadman won re-election to four terms in the house, defeating a series of Democratic opponents (Steven Bell in 2000, Charley Johnson in 2002, Bill Martin in 2004, and Allison Hunter in 2006), each time claiming more than 65% of the vote.^[5][1] During his time in the majority, Cadman sponsored legislation on the subjects of immigration,^[6], eviction practices,^[7], and domestic violence laws.^[8].

After Democrats took control of the legislature in 2004, Cadman served as Minority Caucus Chair.^[2] In 2005, Cadman was a vocal opponent of Colorado's 2006 indoor smoking ban.^[9].

In the current 2007 legislative session, Cadman sat on the House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, and on the legislature's Joint Computer Management Committee.^[10]

Term-limited in the state house, Cadman filed to run for the Colorado Senate in the 2008 legislative elections, seeking the seat held by Senator Ron May, who was himself term-limited. Upon May's resignation in October 2007, Cadman sought^[11] and unanimously won a vacancy appointment to May's seat in the Colorado Senate.^[12] He resigned from the state house on December 10, 2007, and was sworn in to the state senate on December 11.^[13] He faces opposition in the 2008 elections from Democrat Diane Whitley.^[14]

Cadman has announced plans to introduce legislation in the state senate to restrict the state of Colorado's eminent domain powers, which he claims impedes oil and mineral development, and to streamline the automobile registration process by allowing multiple-year registration.^[13]

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• Legislative web page