The Colorado House of Representatives will soon be back at full, 65-member strength, after Democratic vacancy committees appointed a pair of replacement lawmakers ahead of the Wednesday start to the 2026 legislative session.
Broomfield city councilman Kenny Nguyen was appointed to serve House District 33 on Monday night, narrowly beating fellow councilwoman Heidi Henkel in a 16-15 vote. A former councilman, Stan Jezierski, also ran and was eliminated in the first round of voting. Nguyen replaces Sen. William Lindstedt, who was appointed last month to the Senate seat left vacant by Sen. Faith Winter’s death.
“I promise to represent everyone in this legislative session with compassion and love,” Ngyuen, who promised to address affordability, said after the vote total was announced. Both he and Henkel had already filed to run for Lindstedt’s seat in the general election.
On Sunday, a vacancy committee for the similarly suburban House District 29 selected Lori Goldstein to replace former Rep. Shannon Bird, who resigned from the legislature earlier this month to focus on her congressional campaign.
Goldstein was unanimously elected by a 34-person committee of Democratic party volunteers and officials. She spent more than three decades as an educator in Adams 12 Five Star Schools and is currently that district’s school board president.
“I am excited to serve the people of House District 29 and the people of Colorado,” Goldstein said in a statement. “These are challenging times and we are going to have to make tough choices, but I am committed to working with my new colleagues at the State House to come up with the best solutions possible.”
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Both Goldstein and Nguyen will serve one term in the legislature before facing voters either in June’s primary election or November’s general election. In Colorado, legislators who leave office early are replaced by a small vacancy committee of party officials and volunteers, and the party that most recently won the open seat in a general election oversees the vacancy committee.
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