Summit County Commissioners
Tom Long | Bob French| Thomas Davidson
Tom Long
Summit County Commissioner
Chairman
A fourth generation native of Summit County, Tom Long was raised on the family ranch (homesteaded in the 1880's by his great grandfather) north of Silverthorne. Tom attended grades 1-12 in the Summit County school system. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western State College of Colorado, located in Gunnison, Colorado. He has completed the Colorado Municipal League's Elected Officials Training Program and the Rocky Mountain Program for Senior Executives in Business and Government at Colorado University in Denver.Tom's background in government includes serving: Town of Silverthorne Planning Commission (1986-1997); Council, Town of Silverthorne, (1987-1989); Mayor, Town of Silverthorne (1989-1997); Summit Stage Advisory Board (1990-1997); Colorado Association of Ski Towns (1990-1997); Colorado Uninsurable Health Insurance Plan, Board of Directors (1996-2000); Summit Leadership Forum (1990 -- Present); Colorado River Water Conservation District, Board of Directors (1997 -- Present); Clinton Ditch and Reservoir Company, Chair (1997 -- Present); Northwest Colorado Council of Governments, Water Quality Quantity Committee past Chair, current Vice Chair (1997 -- Present); Summit County, Board of County Commissioners (1997 -- Present).
Tom believes government's role is to provide a service to the citizens by defining what citizens want, defining who you serve, making it convenient and providing that service at the highest level possible.
Tom can be contacted at:
PO Box 68
Breckenridge, Colorado 80424
970.453.3412
toml@co.summit.co.us
Bob French
Summit County Commissioner
Born in Boston 1931. B. A. Williams College, Williamstown, MA 1953. Active duty USNR 1953-57. LL.B. Harvard University 1960. Private law practice in Washington, D.C. 1960-1971. Private practice in Breckenridge, CO 1971-2004. Bob’s practice in Washington included a good deal of work for various trade associations in support of their legislative efforts before one congressional committee or another. He also did all the things his high-powered bosses thought beneath them: representation of small business corporations, divorces, court-appointed defense of juveniles, real estate deals, evictions, and the like. Much like the practice he carried on for 30 years here in Breckenridge, where he did his time as county attorney (1976-9), counsel to or board member of innumerable charitable non-profits, and, in his younger years, criminal defense — traffic, DUI's, minor assaults, etc. He’s not sorry to say that his white hairs have long since cut off the 2am phone calls from the jail.
In recent years he did whatever Summit County was doing: every kind of real estate all the way from zoning issues for major land development through condo documents and residential construction on down to landlord-tenant beefs; organization, operation, and transfers of small businesses, special districts (fire, water, metro), homeowner associations, estate planning, financing packages.
That pretty much tells the professional story. Otherwise he’s been known to walk up a hill, get on a pair of skis or a horse, cook a meal, and take a part in a play. Books are important. Music. He and Kay have a bunch of grandchildren, most of whom live in Colorado and occupy most of what passes for their spare time, when they're not engaged in domestic maintenance, trying to keep the house from falling down about their ears.
Bob can be contacted at:
PO Box 68
Breckenridge, CO 80424
970.453.3411
bobf@co.summit.co.us