About Amy Whitesall

You Can Call Him Mayor

As a kid, Ralph A. Castelli Jr. took his cues from ’60s TV shows like The Defenders. Those on-air lawyers were honest and smart; dogged advocates for their clients. Castelli could see himself in their shoes. He went on to become a business attorney, not a criminal defense lawyer like his TV icons. But he found an unexpected parallel career as a defender—of his hometown. Castelli, CEO of Kemp Klein in Troy, is also serving his seventh term as mayor of Pleasant Ridge. The son of a …