Steven Jackson Durham is an American education commissioner. A Republican, he has served as chairman of the State Board of Education for Colorado's 5th congressional district since 2014.
He graduated from University of Northern Colorado. He was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 1974, being re-elected in 1976 and 1979. In 1980 he was elected to the Colorado Senate, and in 1981 appointed a Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.[1] He left the post in 1983.[2]