John Suthers
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John W. Suthers (born October 18, 1951) is the current Attorney General of Colorado and is a member of the Republican party.
Suthers was born in Denver, Colorado and adopted a month later by a Catholic Colorado Springs couple. His parents died when he was young.
He attended St. Mary's High School, and the University of Notre Dame, from where he graduated in 1974 with a degree in Government. Suthers also attended the University of Colorado Law School, from where he graduated in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, he served as a deputy and chief deputy district attorney in Colorado Springs. From 1979 to 1981, he headed the Economic Crime Division of the district attorney’s office and co-authored a book on consumer fraud and white-collar crime.
In 1981, Suthers became a litigation partner of Sparks Dix, P.C., a law firm also in Colorado Springs. He remained with them until 1988, when he was elected District Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. At the conclusion of his second term, he returned to Sparks Dix in 1997, as Senior Counsel in charge of the firm’s litigation section.
In 1999, Suthers was appointed Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections by Governor Bill Owens. In 2001, Suthers was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Colorado.
In 2005, he was nominated by Governor Owens and confirmed by the State Senate as the 37th Attorney General of Colorado, to fill the remaining two years of Ken Salazar's term when Salazar won election to a U.S. Senate seat vacated by Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004. Ironically, Suthers was Salazar's opponent for Attorney General when Salazar was first elected to that office in 1998.
Suthers and his wife Janet have two daughters, Alison and Kate.
