Civic Results professional staff has decades of experience in government at the municipal, county, state and federal levels, and in civic engagement and public participation, in Colorado and around the country.

Civic Results Principals

Together, Civic Results principals have over 70 years of high-level policy development, process management and design and civic engagement experience. The Civic Results team includes founding Principal Peter Kenney, Principal Catherine Kearney Marinelli, Principal Pat Teegarden.

Peter Kenney is a Principal and co-founder of Civic Results. Peter has more than thirty five years of policy development and management experience both as an elected official, in municipal and county governments, and as a public policy consultant. Peter's experience includes service as a mayor and a county commissioner in Clear Creek County. Peter served on the Board of Directors of the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) for seven years, serving as chair of the Executive Committee, and vice chair of the Board. Peter chaired DRCOG's Long Term Care Task Force and served on the Transportation Committee (MPO). Peter served as president of Colorado Counties Incorporated and as chair of various committees and task forces for the National Association of Counties. Peter helped found the Metro Mayors Caucus and since 1993 has provided strategic policy advice and facilitation services to Caucus members.

Peter was the recipient of a Gates Foundation Fellowship for the State and Local Government Executive Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Peter was selected as the 1987 Colorado County Commissioner of the Year, received the 1984 Common Cause Good Citizenship Award, the 1992 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Counties, and the Distinguished Service Award from DRCOG in 1993. He is the 1997 recipient of DRCOG's John V. Christiensen Memorial Award for extraordinary contributions to regionalism.

In 2003 and 2004, Peter served under contract for the U.S Agency for International Development in Baghdad, Iraq as a principal advisor to new local governments throughout Baghdad Province.

Catherine Kearney Marinelli is a Principal at Civic Results and the Director of the Metro Mayors Caucus. Since 1996 Catherine has worked with the Caucus to identify and address critical policy issues and implement regional and local policy initiatives. Catherine has facilitated the creation of multi-jurisdictional regional compacts on issues such as energy efficiency, water conservation and health and wellness and served on the policy team facilitating the Mile High Compact on growth management.

Catherine organized the Caucus' multiyear $200 million mortgage bond program and led the Caucus effort to establish a $50 million pool of funds at the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority for the finance of transit oriented affordable multi-family rental housing along the region's transit corridors. In the area of water conservation, Catherine led the multi-jurisdictional effort to draft Best Management Practices for water conservation (demand side) currently in use as an appendix to the Colorado Water Conservation Board's Model Water Conservation Plan. Catherine also served as an appointee to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s Housing Plan Task Force.

At Civic Results Catherine has worked on special projects for a variety of agencies, local governments and foundations including the City and County of Denver, Regional Air Quality Council, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, the Counselors of Real Estate, and The Denver Foundation. Catherine has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver and a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Colorado State University.

Catherine is a 2010 Gates Fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, in the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.

Pat Teegarden is a Principal at Civic Results and is the Executive Director of the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission. Teegarden has been involved in public policy, politics, and community affairs in Colorado continuously since 1976.

Teegarden served in the administrations of Governors Romer and Owens (1995-2001) as the senior policy and legislative director for the Executive Directors of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).
Teegarden also worked as a private attorney at the national law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP, concentrating on environment/natural resources, healthcare, and general administrative and regulatory matters for a diverse set of clients including Colorado local governments, healthcare facilities, housing, and other private sector companies.
Teegarden has served in various Congressional staff positions in Washington, D.C., including the office of former Colorado Congressman Tim Wirth, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Budget Committee. He returned to Colorado from Washington, D.C. to join the staff of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, where he was responsible for government and community affairs.

Teegarden holds both undergraduate (Economics) and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has served on a variety of Colorado volunteer boards, commissions, and task forces in the past.

Civic Results Board of Directors

Tom Clark, Chairman
Executive Vice President, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation

Linda Morton, Vice Chair
Former Mayor of Lakewood Colorado
President, Morton Consulting
Chair, Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon

Bill Mosher, Treasurer
Managing Director, Trammel Crow Company

Ken Fellman
Former Mayor of Arvada, Colorado
Partner, Kissinger and Fellman, PC

Happy Haynes
Former City Council Member of Denver, Colorado
Chief Community Engagement Officer, Denver Public Schools

Stephanie Garcia
Co-Founder, Resurrection Properties

Marilee Utter
CEO, Citiventure Associates