Lesley Dahlkemper is a member of the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners and formerly served as the board’s chair. She was elected to her second, four-year term in November 2022.
Lesley’s professional life has focused on what she loves most – helping people, solving complex problems, and giving back to her community.
She’s owned her own business, worked as an award-winning journalist, and led national and statewide initiatives as a senior executive in the private and non-profit sectors.
Gov. Jared Polis appointed Lesley to serve on the Colorado Fire Commission, and she was selected earlier this year to serve on the Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force. Lesley chairs the Jefferson County Wildfire Commission and the Chatfield Watershed Authority, and she has chaired the Gateway to the Rockies Opioid Council and served as treasurer on the Board of Directors for Colorado Counties, Inc., in addition to other national, state, and local boards. She is the past president of the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education.
Originally from Chicago, Lesley moved to Denver in 1989 to work as a reporter after obtaining her master’s degree from the University of Illinois. Her family has called Jeffco home for 30 years. Lesley and her husband, Mike Feeley, chose to raise their daughter, Grace, in Jeffco because of its excellent schools and quality of life. Grace now attends college. Mike – a retired attorney and former Colorado Senate Minority Leader – also served on the West Metro Fire Board. They live in south Jeffco with their three rescue dogs: Peaches, Maisy, and Eli.