Prior to being appointed as the Director for the Board, Kristin served as an Administrative Law Judge with the Board since September 2000. During that time she handled administrative hearings and served as a mediator.

Prior to joining the Board, Kristin was an Assistant Attorney General in the Colorado Attorney General's office in the Business and Licensing Section, where she was General Counsel to the State Personnel Board, the State Boards of Accountancy and Barbers and Cosmetologists and served as trial counsel for the Administrator of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code and the Collection Agency Board.

In the community, she serves on the Board for Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, and volunteers at Academia Ana Marie Sandoval. She is a past Co-Chair of Denver’s Career Service Board, a member of Denver’s New Human Resource Commission and a board member of the Colorado Women's Bar Association.

Kristin received her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder in 1994 and graduated Magna cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins in 1983. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Cheryl Post in the Eighteenth Judicial District. She is the recipient of CU Law School’s 2004 Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement.