Gretchen Rydin has represented House District 38 since January 8, 2025, after winning the seat as the Democratic candidate in November 2024. Her House Democratic caucus biography describes her as a social worker, a therapist and a former member of the Littleton city council.
2025
State representative for District 38, sworn in on January 8
The Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) rates how often legislators vote with its positions on taxes, spending, TABOR and other issues, including property rights and parental rights.
CUT rating (2025): 12% CUT rating (2026): 13.6% Average of listed CUT ratings (2025, 2026): 12.8%
The guide gives each listed year equal weight, omits years without a rating and rounds only the final average to one decimal. This is a guide calculation, not a CUT-published lifetime score.
Tim Martin's page on the Colorado Center Party website says he has a professional background in private security and has worked in a correctional facility.
Has a professional background in private security; has worked in a correctional facility
Norm Olsen's campaign website says he had a 45-year career as a software developer, built a business that operated for 25 years until it was acquired, and is now retired. He ran for Congress as the Libertarian candidate in the 2nd District in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and in the 6th District in 2014, 2016 and 2020. The website says he earned a physics degree from Union College in 1967.
2002, 2004, 2006
Ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd Congressional District, as the Libertarian candidate three times
Allison Madrigal's campaign website says she founded Rescue America, a 24-hour rescue hotline and emergency response service for the sexually exploited, after ten years in corporate work and building an in-vitro fertilization insurance product. It says she moved to Colorado in 2021 and earned a marketing degree from the University of Nebraska in 2002 and an MBA from the University of Houston in 2009.
Spent ten years in corporate work, then built an in-vitro fertilization insurance product
