Cheri Jahn

{{Short description|American politician from Colorado}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Cheri Jahn

| image=Cheri Jahn 2010.jpg

| caption=Jahn in 2010

| state_senate=Colorado

| state=Colorado

| district=20th

| term_start= January 2011Ballotpedia. [https://ballotpedia.org/Cheri_Jahn Cheri Jahn]. Viewed: 2017-02-01.

| term_end= January 4, 2018

| preceded=Moe Keller

| succeeded= Jessie Danielson

| office2 = Member of the Colorado House of Representatives

from the 24th district

| term_start2 = January 2001

| term_end2 = January 2009

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 = Sue Schafer

| birth_date={{birth date and age|1953|07|12}}

| birth_place=Sterling, Colorado

| death_date=

| death_place=

| profession=Small Business Owner

| otherparty=Democratic (until 2017)

| party=Independent (since 2017)

|}}

Cheri Jahn (born July 12, 1953) is a politician from Colorado. She served in both the State Senate and the State House of Representatives. While serving in the senate, she switched her party from Democrat to Independent{{cite news |url=https://coloradopolitics.com/state-sen-cheri-jahn-switches/|title=State Sen. Cheri Jahn switches from Democrat to unaffiliated legislator|author=Joey Bunch|publisher=Colorado Politics|date=December 29, 2017|access-date=December 30, 2017}} In the Colorado Senate, she represented the 20th district from 2011 until 2019. Her district encompassed the city of Wheat Ridge, Colorado.{{cite web |url=http://www.comaps.org/cosenate.html |title=Colorado State Senate Districts |accessdate=2007-03-14 |work=COMaps |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303224340/http://comaps.org/cosenate.html |archivedate=2011-03-03 }} Previously she was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2001 through 2008.

Jahn was elected to the State House in 2000, where she represented Wheat Ridge. She was sworn into her first term in the State Senate in 2011.{{cite web

|url=http://www.cherijahn.com/

|title=Senator Cheri Jahn Colorado Senate District 20

|accessdate=2007-01-20

|work=cherijahn.com

}} On December 29, 2017, Jahn announced on Facebook she was switching her political affiliation from Democratic to unaffiliated.

In the 2011 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Jahn Vice-chaired the Agricultural & Natural Resources Committee, and a member of the Finance and the Business, Labor and Technology Committees.{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/DirectoryHou?openframeset |title=Senate Committees |accessdate=2007-03-14 |work=Colorado General Assembly}}