Patty McMahon

McMahon earned a high school diploma from Bishop Gorman High School and a bachelor's degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 1989. Her Ballotpedia profile lists her career experience as a writer.[2] In her Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey, she says she spent over three decades at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, beginning as an investigator and later serving as Denver's Outreach & Education Coordinator and congressional liaison for 25 years. Her campaign website puts her time in federal service at 35 years.[2][4] She says she was selected as Region VIII Lead for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and in 2004 was chosen for a committee that reorganized the EEOC.[2][4]

McMahon says she serves on Colorado nonprofit and civic boards and has worked as a campaign director and public relations director for congressional candidates from different parties. She says she has lived in the district for 26 years.[2][4] She received 1.6% of the vote to Jason Crow's 65.8%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[3]