Stan Dempsey Jr. will leave the Colorado Petroleum Association, which he has headed for the past 17 years, to take over as president of the Colorado Mining Association from Stuart Sanderson, who is leaving after 22 years at the helm.
Dempsey will step in as president-elect and chief operating officer starting Aug. 1, and will become president when Sanderson .
“I have big shoes to fill in succeeding Stuart Sanderson, a colleague I have long admired and respected during my time as president of the Colorado Petroleum Association,” Dempsey said in a statement.
Sanderson will stay on as a consultant to assist Dempsey with the transition.
Dempsey was selected after a nationwide search and he has a family connection to the CMA. His father Stan Demspey Sr. was chairman of the association in 1980.
The CMA, started in 1876, represents more than 900 members who have a hand in the mining of coal, gold, molybdenum, sodium bicarbonate, gypsum, limestone, uranium and other metals and minerals.
Mining activity generates $3 billion a year in revenues in the state and miners are among the highest paid industrial workers in Colorado, the association said.
