Michael Christopher Johnston is the 46th and current Mayor of Denver, Colorado, having won the 2023 mayoral election. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Colorado Senate, representing the 33rd district from 2009 to 2017. Johnston was also a candidate for governor of Colorado in 2018 and for the U.S. Senate in 2020.
Born in Oklahoma City and raised in Vail, Colorado, Johnston graduated from Vail Mountain School in 1993.