About Russell Martin

Ritter's Run

It was a decision his colleagues advised him against. Only six years after graduating from the University of Colorado School of Law, Bill Ritter Jr. had become chief deputy in the Denver district attorney’s office, and he seemed a likely candidate among the 63 lawyers working in the prosecutor’s office to become district attorney himself one day. Yet there he was in the spring of 1987, announcing that he and his wife, Jeannie, and their 2-year-old son soon would leave for a …