Spencer Swalm is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. First elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006, Swalm represented House District 37, which encompasses the most of the city of Centennial, Colorado. Term limited, he did not run for re-election in 2014, so his term ended in January 2015. Early career Born in Colorado, Swalm attended Colorado College before transferring to the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history in 1975. He then earned a J.D. from the University of Denver in 1979. After practicing law for over a decade, specializing in estate planning, Swalm entered the employee benefits and health insurance business in 1990 as a partner in Redstone Benefit Systems. He has served as the chair of the legislative committee of the Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters. In the early 1980s, Swalm began writing op-ed pieces opposing government transportation subsidies and joined the Independence Institute, a Colorado free-market think tank, eventually becoming a senior fellow. He opposed the 2004 tax measure funding the FasTracks light rail expansion. He has also served on the board of the Colorado Council on Economic Education. Politically, Swalm has been a member of the Colorado Republican Business Coalition, the Centennial Republican Forum, the Arapahoe County Republican Men's Club, and was treasurer for the Sixth Congressional District Republican Committee. Swalm is married; he and his wife, Marleen, have three children: Byron, Lauren, and Jocelyn. Swalm has taught Sunday school and served on the missions committee of his church, Grace Chapel, and has taken several missionary trips to the Amazon Basin in Bolivia. Political career 2006 election Swalm won election to Colorado's 37th House District in 2006. He faced Centennial Councilwoman Betty Ann Habig in the Republican primary, losing to her at the party assembly, but defeating her in the party primary. He then defeated Democrat Angela Engel with just over 51 percent of the vote. 2007 legislative session In the 2007 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Swalm sat on the House Health and Human Services Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee. Swalm's father, Paul Swalm, had served on the Denver, Colorado city council and in the Colorado House of Representatives in the 1970s, and Swalm was assigned the same seat in the house chamber as his father. That year, Swalm sponsored legislation that would require sex offenders