State Board of Education Member - Congressional District 7

Karla Esser was elected to the State Board of Education for the 7th Congressional District in 2020. She taught German and social studies at Gateway High School in Aurora, taught English in Germany and was an instructional coach in the Aurora Public School District. She retired as director of the Master of Arts in Education program at Regis University. She holds a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado.

Steve Barton's campaign website says he is a patent attorney still active in that field and was earlier a computer architect and circuit design engineer at Intel and Ford Microelectronics. It says he has served in appointed positions on other Colorado state boards. It says his first degrees were in biophysics and electrical engineering and that he holds a doctor of medicine degree and an MBA.

Ross Klopf's 2026 personal financial disclosure lists Jefferson County, Colorado as his employer. He ran for the Colorado House of Representatives in House District 28 in 2018, for the RTD Board of Directors in District D in 2020 and for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 7th Congressional District in 2022.