Frances (Fran) Natividad Coleman is an American politician. She is a former elected state representative from Colorado. A Democrat, she represented House District 1 in Southwest Denver from 1998 to 2006. Biography Frances (Fran) Natividad Coleman was born in Denver, Colorado at St. Joseph's Hospital (Denver, Colorado) on July 5, 1945. She was placed in St. Joseph's Nursery Annex and then moved to a foster home on October 15, 1945. On August 6, 1946, Coleman was transferred to the Infant of Prague Nursery. On January 13, 1947, she was transferred to the Queen of Heaven Orphanage. Responding to the call delivered by Father Domingo Morera, Coleman was adopted by her migrant parents Bacilio Natividad and Cliofas Gonzales Hernandez Natividad. The Natividads also adopted a son David as well. The adoptions were finalized in Weld County in 1950. Coleman and her new family lived in Weld County on a farm located four miles northwest of Gilcrest, Colorado and four miles southwest of Milliken, Colorado. Bacilio and Cliofas provided for their young family by boarding field workers on the farm while Bacilio followed the crops in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and Colorado. On January 2, 1952, Coleman's mother Cliofas died in an accident; Fran was six years old at the time. After her mother's death, Coleman's father desperately tried to find childcare for his children while he was away working the crops, shepherding or working for the railroad. After six months of struggling, Coleman and her brother David eventually went to live with her aunt and uncle for stability. Her father returned from seasonal work every six months to visit. When Coleman was a junior in high school her father Bacilio was killed in a hit and run accident. Fran graduated from Valley High School (Gilcrest, Colorado) in May 1964 as an honor roll student and received the Redmond Scholarship. Upon graduation, Coleman moved to Denver to work for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph as an entry-level clerk. She married in 1965 and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she became a mother of two sons, Mitchell and Matthew. While in Missouri, she worked for Southwestern Bell and the Ferguson Police Department. The family moved back to Denver in 1969 and Fran resumed employment at Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph. In 1979, Coleman maintained three jobs; manager at Mountain Bell, single mother and college student. She successfully worked her way through college earning