The Colorado State Senate unanimously confirmed the reappointment of Deborah Froeb to the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners March 24, 2026, following a hearing before the Joint Agriculture Committee March 19. Froeb, who was reappointed by Governor Jared Polis in July 2025, will continue serving through 2029.

Froeb currently serves as Board President and holds the Natural Resources seat. First appointed in September 2022 to fill an off-cycle vacancy, she has played a key leadership role in advancing the Board's fiduciary mission on behalf of Colorado's public schools and other trust beneficiaries. She also serves as the State Land Board's representative on the Public School Fund Investment Board.

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An experienced conservation finance and investment professional, Froeb currently works as a Conservation Finance Strategy Advisor at Nature United, where she develops strategies and financial mechanisms to support Indigenous-led conservation projects across Canada. She previously spent more than a decade with The Nature Conservancy, serving as Director of Land Conservation and Finance in Colorado and as a founding member of NatureVest, the organization's impact investment unit. In those roles, she helped structure and manage investments supporting grassland preservation and regenerative agriculture across the United States and Latin America.

Before her conservation finance career, Froeb spent 20 years in institutional investment and banking with publicly traded firms, including First Interstate Bank, Mutual of New York, and Regency Centers. She has also served in leadership roles with the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks, the Urban Land Institute, and the Colorado Headwaters Land Trust.

“Deb brings a rare combination of financial expertise, conservation experience, and collaborative leadership to the Board,” said Dr. Nicole Rosmarino, Director of the Colorado State Land Board. “Her outstanding continued service comes at a pivotal time for our agency, as we work to diversify our revenue and to protect and enhance the long-term value of state trust lands to serve our current and future beneficiaries.”

The Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners is a constitutionally created agency that manages a $6 billion endowment of assets for the benefit of Colorado’s K-12 schoolchildren and other public institutions. The agency is the second-largest landowner in Colorado and generates revenue by leasing three million surface acres and four million subsurface acres for agriculture, grazing, recreation, commercial real estate, rights-of-way, renewable energy, oil, gas, and solid minerals. The agency is entirely self-funded and receives no tax dollars.