Jefferson County's newest commissioner, Libby Szabo, was sworn-in on Jan. 30. She will serve the remaining term, two years, of the District One county commissioner seat, which covers northern Jeffco.

Szabo is a resident of Arvada and a former state legislator. She was Assistant Minority Leader of the Colorado House of Representatives and was serving her third term as a state legislator when she was chosen by the Republican Party to fill the vacant commissioner seat.

Szabo is a Colorado native. She and her husband, Denes, have four children - Angel, Jessy, Nissa, and Karly - and will have been married 32 years in March.

The Szabos own a family business that has been in operation for more than 40 years. Commissioner Szabo also has experience in the mortgage lending and financial services industry. She is very active in her community, coaches youth sports, and volunteers at her church.

Jefferson County Commissioner Donald Rosier was re-elected to serve as District Three county commissioner this past November and was sworn into office on Jan. 13, 2015. This is Rosier's second term. He was elected in November 2010 and was sworn in on January 11, 2011.

A graduate of Colorado State University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering with an emphasis in water resources, Rosier has worked in the consulting engineering field, the public engineering sector, the land development and construction field, and energy development and exploration.

Before being elected county commissioner, Rosier was vice president of operations at Summit Oil Field Services and a principal with Westside Investment Partners. Previous positions include director of land development at Alliance Commercial Partners and vice president at Neumann Homes. One of his first positions included working as a review engineer with the city of Westminster.

Rosier, a fifth-generation Coloradoan who grew up in Arvada and has lived in Jefferson County his entire life, attended Swanson Elementary, North Arvada Junior High and Arvada Senior High School. 

Former Commissioner Faye Griffin moved a few floors down after the Jan. 13 swearing-in. She left her post as commissioner to return to her first love as Clerk and Recorder. Griffin was elected as the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder in November 2014 and sworn into office in January.

The Clerk and Recorder's Office administers election procedures and voter registration, acts as agent for the State Department of Revenue to handle motor vehicle transactions, issues marriage licenses, records real estate and other legal documents for posterity and reference, and serves as clerk to the Board of County Commissioners.

This will be Griffin's sixth term as an elected official for Jeffco. She started as the clerk and recorder, served eight years and then was elected treasurer. Next she ran for county commissioner and served six years in that role.

Prior to becoming an elected official, she worked in the clerk's office for 24 years, for a total of 40 years at the county.

A Jeffco native and a former cheerleader for Golden High School, Faye and her husband, Walter, have three children, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 

After winning the election in November 2014, Ron Sandstrom was sworn-in as the Jefferson County Assessor on January 13, 2015.

He began his career in the mailroom at Revere Copper & Brass in Chicago, working his way up to an accountant. Next he was a property accountant for Reynolds Metals in McCook, Illinois. He was promoted to assistant property accounting manager and moved to Richmond, Virginia. After that he moved back to Chicago to be the chief accountant for Smoler Brothers.

He made his way to Colorado in December 1975 and spent 14 years at Coors Brewing in Golden, working as an ITC specialist, supervisor of property accounting and a manager of tax accounting. In 1989, he began his own firm, F & S Tax Consultants of Arvada, representing property owners in tax disputes for the last 25 years.

Sandstrom is a native of Chicago. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Arvada and were married in 1963. They have four children and six grandchildren.

Jefferson County Coroner John Graham was re-elected to serve as the county's coroner.  This is Graham's second term. He was first elected in November 2011 and took office in January 2012.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office is created by the Colorado Constitution and mandated to establish the cause and manner of death for people who die suddenly or unexpectedly, or who are not attended by a physician at the time of death. The Coroner's Office is also required to investigate deaths from accidents, acts of violence and other special circumstances.

Prior to coming to the county, Graham retired from the Arvada Police Department after 21 years with the Criminal Investigations Bureau. Graham is a Registered Medicolegal Death Investigator, awarded Diplomate status in the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

Jefferson County is the fourth largest county in Colorado in population. Our county has the third highest death rate in the state (we have a higher than average older population). Graham's Office has professionally and compassionately worked with hundreds of families who have lost loved ones. 

On January 13, 2015, Jeff Shrader was sworn into office as the Jefferson County Sheriff. Shrader's law enforcement career began in 1984 as a deputy assigned to the county jail. Soon thereafter, as the agency's first administrative sergeant, he coordinated a statewide forum to address juvenile violence, the Sheriff's Office's first Citizens' Advisory Council and the Citizens' Academy. Ten years after he was hired, he attended the FBI National Academy as a sergeant.

Promoted to the rank of division chief in 1999, Shrader oversaw operations including the Patrol Division, Investigations Division, Detentions Division and the Support Services Division. Accomplishments of his career as chief include administering the organization's $90 million budget, spearheading the agency's community-based decentralization effort and the Strategic Management and Accurate Response Tactics program.

Shrader holds a bachelor's degree in management of human resources from Colorado Christian University and has completed coursework towards a Master's of Business Administration Degree at Regis University.