Norma Anderson is an American former state legislator from Colorado. A Republican, she represented Jefferson County in the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distr ...

from 1987 until 1998. She served in the

Colorado Senate The Colorado Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of about 123, ...

from 1999 until 2006. She was the first woman to serve as majority leader in the Colorado House and Colorado Senate. A pre-school was named for her and she is a member of the Jefferson County Historical Commission Hall of Fame. She has lived in Lakewood, Colorado, and has three children. She resigned her senate seat in 2006 to spend more time with her family. She was succeeded in the Senate by Kiki Traylor. An interview with her was recorded in 2011.

Opposition to Trump

In 2021, Anderson left the Republican Party over its support for Donald Trump. Anderson is a plaintiff on a court case (''

Trump v. Anderson ''Trump v. Anderson'', 601 U.S. 100 (2024), is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that states could not determine eligibility for federal office, including the presidency, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendmen ...

'') seeking to prohibit former President Trump, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, from the Colorado ballot based on the insurrection clause of the

14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Often considered as one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and e ...

. Trump was ultimately disqualified from the Colorado Republican primary; it was the first time a presidential candidate had ever been barred from running because of the clause. The court also stayed its ruling, pending review by the US Supreme Court. On March 4, 2024, US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump could not be disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th amendment.

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