Will, Katy, Bob, and John Yates

Will, Katy, Bob, and John Yates

Meet Bob

When I turned 50 in 2011, I left a senior executive position with Level 3 Communications to dedicate all of my time in service to the Boulder community.  Since then, I have worked hard to help our community thrive.  I have led in the following ways:

Bob portraying Andrew Macky during the biennial Meet the Spirits celebration at Columbia Cemetery

Bob portraying Andrew Macky during the biennial Meet the Spirits celebration at Columbia Cemetery

Katy and Bob at the Bolder Boulder

Katy and Bob at the Bolder Boulder

City Council

  • Elected November 2015; re-elected November 2019

  • Mayor Pro Tem (deputy mayor), 2019-20

  • Council committees: Finance, Audit, Charter & Elections, Community Engagement, Retreat

  • Director, Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau

  • City Council Representative, Dushanbe and Ramat HaNegev Sister City Committees

  • Former Commissioner, Boulder Housing Authority
    (Boulder Housing Partners)

  • Former Director, Downtown Boulder Business
    Improvement District

Civic & Non-Profit

Current

  • Director and Past Chairman, Downtown Boulder Community Initiatives

  • Moderator Coordinator, Conference on World Affairs

  • Board of Advisors, CU Center for Leadership

  • Founder, Rainbows Over Pearl LGBTQ Initiative

  • Out Boulder County Capital Campaign

  • Volunteer, Columbia Cemetery
    Conservation Corps

  • Meet the Spirits Actor (Andrew Macky)

Past

  • Chairman, Museum of Boulder

  • President, Boulder History Museum

  • Treasurer, Colorado Chautauqua Association

  • Secretary, Dairy Center for the Arts

  • Chairman, Boulder Parks & Recreation
    Advisory Board

  • Kindergarten Reader, Boulder YWCA Reading to
    End Racism Program

  • Co-Chairman, City of Boulder Capital Investment Strategy Committee

  • Co-Chairman, Boulder Community, Culture and Safety Initiative

  • Head of Fundraising, Boulder Sesquicentennial
    Celebration Committee

  • Member, Boulder Greenways Advisory Board

  • President, American Cancer Society, Omaha Chapter

  • Director, Fontenelle Forest Nature Center, Nebraska

Past Professional

  • Partner, Fraser Stryker Law Firm, Omaha

  • President and General Counsel, Level 3 Communications Europe, London

  • Senior Vice President, Level 3 Communications, Inc., Broomfield

  • Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado and Denver University Law Schools

Reading to kids at Flatiron Elementary School

Reading to kids at Flatiron Elementary School

At LGBTQ Pride Month launch on Pearl Street

I am a graduate of the University of Scranton (B.S. Chemistry & Business, Magna Cum Laude, 1983) and the University of California, Hastings College of Law (J.D., 1986).  Originally from Omaha, I worked in London for three years before my family and I moved to Boulder in 2001, settling in North Boulder near 19th & Iris.  Our sons, John and Will, graduated from Boulder High School (Go Panthers!) and they attended Yale and Fordham, respectively. They are each pursuing careers in Brooklyn.  Katy and I have been married for 40 years. I love her now more than I did the day I married her in 1983.