David W. Broadwell
Denver City Attorney's Office
David Broadwell, Esq., has served Colorado municipalities for over thirty-five years, starting as a planner in Glenwood Springs in 1982, and currently acting as chief legal advisor to the Denver City Council. In the Denver City Attorney's office, Mr. Broadwell also assists with a wide variety of special project on behalf of the mayor and city council, including significant work in the areas of home rule charter reform, ballot issues and elections, and major land use and development projects. Prior to joining the City and County of Denver, he served for seven years as an attorney and state lobbyist for the Colorado Municipal League. He is the principal author of TABOR: A Guide to the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (1999), and contributed to numerous other CML publications while at the League. Mr. Broadwell is a frequent CLE speaker on topics of interest to local government attorneys and officials, and between 1993 and 2015 authored the chapter on local government law for the Annual Survey of Colorado Law, published by Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. In 2002, he received the Award for Distinguished Public Service by a Local Government Attorney from the International Municipal Law Association. He holds his law degree and master's degree in regional planning from the University of North Carolina.
(07/17)
