Jim Burack is Director of the Marijuana Enforcement Division, after joining MED as Chief of Investigations in 2014. Previously he served since 2001 as police chief in Milliken (CO), and from 2008-14 he was dual-hatted as Milliken’s town administrator. Prior positions have included U.S. Senate staffer in Washington, D.C., Westminster (CO) Police Department patrol officer, and Counsel and Director of Operations with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) also in Washington, DC.

 

A U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel, Jim's reserve tours have included senior liaison officer to FEMA Region VIII; Staff Judge Advocate at Marine Forces Pacific, Hawaii; and evaluation staff member at the Dept. of Defense, Inspector General at the Pentagon. Active duty tours include civil affairs officer in Ramadi, Iraq in 2004-05; civil affairs team leader in Kosovo in 1999; and military prosecutor, security platoon commander, and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Southern California.

 

Jim holds an MA from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, J.D. from the University of Colorado, and AB from Dartmouth College. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (230th) and the Senior Management Institute for Police (SMIP), and was an adjunct faculty member at University of Northern Colorado. He is member of the Colorado, California and D.C. bars

The Kenneth King Foundation has provided the Denver Lions Foundation with a $10,000 grant.  This grant helps support our Four Pillars of Service:  Sight Conservation, Youth Services, Hearing Conservation, Social Services. 

 

Kenneth King was an active member of the Denver Lions Club.  His Foundation continues to support the Club.  From childhood his motto was "To do the common thing in an uncommon way."  He believed in giving people the opportunity to work and to prosper under the American free enterprise system.  During his years in the home loan industry he found ways to assist people whom otherwise couldn't have obtained home loans. Losing his father early in life young King learned how to take care of himself which gave him the strength and character to take care of others.