Anne Freedman, Pitkin County Trustee

Anne Freedman brings extensive experience in higher education and Colorado government to her new post as a member of the Board of Trustees of CMC.

She is currently completing eight years as a member of the Basalt Town Council, where her proudest achievement is creation and passage of a Historic Preservation Ordinance that safeguards the older buildings in the commercial district. Before that she served on the Planning and Zoning Commission and through the years, has been active as a volunteer in many community organizations.

Anne and her husband Phil moved to the valley in 1997 after taking early retirement from their posts as university professors. She has been a researcher and writer at the Radcliffe Institute and has taught at several colleges. From 1966 to 1997 she taught political science and public administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Although Roosevelt awards both graduate and four-year undergraduate degrees, it resembles CMC in serving many older, part-time working students pursuing advanced vocational training.

At Roosevelt, Anne was for a period, the Chairman of the Department of Political Science. During her tenure, she also published four books and numerous articles and served a term as President of the Chicago area chapter of the International Personnel Management Association.

In 1988, her article on Chicago political patronage was chosen by the American Society of Public Administration as the best lead essay published in the official journal for that year.

Anne is native of New Jersey (which accounts for the accent) and received her B.A. from Douglass College of Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. She received her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, which she attended on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She and her husband both received their Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa.

Anne and Phil are proud grandparents of Dylan, who lives with their daughter and her husband in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.

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