Regional Transportation District's board member Kate Williams has resigned from the transit agency's board of directors over "serious health issues," the transit agency wrote in a statement on Friday.
She told the Denver Post she is stepping down due to a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Williams, who was first elected in 2016 and then again in 2020, was serving her last year of her term as the elected representative of District A, which includes Glendale, Capitol Hill, Downtown Denver, Washington Park, Cherry Creek, Hilltop, Lowry and a bit of Arapahoe County.
Voters will elect a new member to represent them on the board in November, but in the meantime, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will be able to appoint someone to the seat; that appointment is subject to City Council approval.
Williams' fellow board members celebrated her work at a Jan. 9 meeting, touting her advocacy for Zero Fare for Youth, the program that lets people under 19 ride RTD for free.
At the same meeting, the board also elected new leadership: Erik Davidson as board chair; Peggy Catlin as first vice chair, Lynn Guissinger as second vice chair, Julien Bouquet as treasurer, and Michael Guzman as secretary.
