Dottie Lamm

Dottie Lamm, Colorado's first lady from 1975 to 1987 and newspaper columnist from 1979 to 2017, has worked as a flight attendant, a psychiatric social worker, a college instructor, a public speaker, and a political activist. In 1998, as a self-proclaimed feminist and environmentalist, she won the Colorado Democratic Party nomination for the United States Senate. Now retired, she lives in Denver with her husband of 57 years, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm. She enjoys time with her four...See more

Dottie Lamm, Colorado's first lady from 1975 to 1987 and newspaper columnist from 1979 to 2017, has worked as a flight attendant, a psychiatric social worker, a college instructor, a public speaker, and a political activist. In 1998, as a self-proclaimed feminist and environmentalist, she won the Colorado Democratic Party nomination for the United States Senate. Now retired, she lives in Denver with her husband of 57 years, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm. She enjoys time with her four grandchildren-ages 15 to 8-(whenever she can catch them!), volunteers for various projects that serve refugees, mentors young people with political ambitions, and jumps in to champion candidates (especially Democratic pro-choice women) every election cycle. This year (2020), she celebrates 39 years as a breast cancer survivor. An avid outdoorswoman, in her spare time Dottie hikes, swims, and cross-country skis. In her youth, she climbed 34 of Colorado's 54 mountains over 14,000 feet. This is Lamm's third published collection of columns. It is distinguished from the others, Second Banana (1983) and Choice Concerns (1996), by its emphasis on the heart over the head, the personal over the political, and the psychological over the polemical. See less