Secretary of State

Amanda Gonzalez is the Jefferson County clerk and recorder, elected in 2022. She was earlier executive director of Colorado Common Cause. Her campaign website says she is an election attorney and an adjunct professor of election law at the University of Denver. She holds degrees from Occidental College and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

James Wiley ran for the United States House, District 3, in 2024 as the Libertarian candidate. His campaign website says he was executive director of the Libertarian Party of Colorado in 2024 and 2025 and switched to the Republican Party in December 2025. It says he managed the Dominion class action lawsuit, directed Save Our Suffrage, its nonprofit sponsor, and earned an MBA from Colorado State University Pueblo.

Sean Vadney's April 2026 financial disclosure lists him as communications director of the Libertarian Party of Colorado and as vice chair and treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Douglas County. It lists income from Burwoodland, IATSE Local 7 and Ray Danger Records, and names Free Liberty Records, an entertainment business, as a business he is associated with. His campaign website says he is a business owner.

Amanda Campbell ran for Colorado Secretary of State in 2022, 2018, 2014 and 2010, and for the Colorado House of Representatives, District 27, in 2008.

Celeste Landry's campaign website says she has been a volunteer lobbyist on election bills at the state Capitol, the Title Board and Secretary of State rulemaking hearings, and registered agent and treasurer for a county candidate and a Boulder County political party. It says she worked in Boulder as a production scheduler and a math teacher and holds a master's degree in operations research from George Washington University.