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American attorney and politician (born 1951)

John William Suthers (born October 18, 1951) is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Attorney General of Colorado, U. S. Attorney for Colorado, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, and Fourth Judicial District Attorney. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Suthers was born in Denver and adopted a month later by William and Marguerite Suthers of Colorado Springs. His father died when Suthers was 15, and his mother died when he was 23. He attended St. Mary's High School in Colorado Springs, and the University of Notre Dame, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in government in 1974. Suthers graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1977. He attended college and law school on academic scholarships. to become the elected district attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. He served as president of the Colorado District Attorneys Council in 1994 1995. At the conclusion of his second term, Suthers returned to Sparks Dix in 1997 as senior counsel in charge of the firm's litigation section. He then ran for Attorney General in 1998 and lost 47.5% to 50% to Colorado Department of Natural Resources Director Ken Salazar. In January 1999, Suthers was appointed executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections by Governor Bill Owens. In that capacity he managed a department of 6,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $500 million. Suthers has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver School of Law and as a scholar in residence at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He also has held several bar association leadership positions, including president of the El Paso County Bar Association and senior vice president of the Colorado Bar Association. During his tenure as U. S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, he led the state's anti terrorism efforts and his office prosecuted several high profile white collar cases, including cases against executives of Qwest.

Following the election of Ken Salazar to the United States Senate, John Suthers was nominated by Governor Owens and confirmed by the State Senate as the 37th Attorney General of Colorado in January 2005. Suthers served the remaining two years of Salazar's term before running for reelection in 2006. In November 2006, Suthers won election to the Attorney General's Office, defeating challenger Fern O'Brien by nine percent. During the same election cycle, the Republican candidate for Governor, Congressman Bob Beauprez, lost 56%–40%. Despite being courted in 2008 and 2010 to run for the U. S. Senate, Suthers chose to run for re election. Suthers defeated his Democratic opponent, Stan Garnett, in 2010 election by a 13 point margin – the largest margin of victory in a two way race in Colorado that year. In both 2006 and 2010, Suthers received the endorsement of virtually every major newspaper in Colorado. including The Denver Post, which called him a "tireless public servant". Suthers served on the executive committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) from 2007 to 2013. He chaired the NAAG Criminal Law Committee from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the U. S. Attorney General's Executive Working Group on Prosecution from 2005 to 2015. While Suthers expressed gratitude for being listed amongst leading law enforcement officials from around the US, he expressed disinterest in moving into any federal position as well as disinterest in any future runs for the office of Governor of Colorado. On April 2, 2019 Suthers was re elected to a second term as mayor, capturing 74% of the vote in a four way race. Under Suthers' leadership, Colorado Springs has become widely known as "Olympic City USA", for its identity as the home of 24 National Governing Bodies, as well as the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the U. S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center. In July 2020, the nation's only U. S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum opened in Colorado Springs. In 2021, Colorado Springs secured the final approvals for the City for Champions initiative, a five project effort that saw the City add a downtown stadium, a new indoor arena on the Colorado College campus, the Olympic Museum, the Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and a new Visitors Center at the United States Air Force Academy. During Suthers' tenure as mayor, Colorado Springs' gross domestic product (GDP) has grown by a third from $30 billion to $40 billion annually. According to the Milken Institute, the city's economy was 98th among the nation's 200 largest cities when Suthers took office in 2015. In 2022, the city ranked among the nation's top 10 municipal economies. According to U. S. News & World Report, Colorado Springs was ranked the Most Desirable City in America from 2019 to 2022.

Suthers and his wife Janet have two adult daughters, Alison and Kate. Alison is a Deputy District Attorney in Denver, and Kate is a Commander in the United States Navy. Suthers has two grandchildren. On July 1, 2019, Suthers' son in law Dr. Mark Karla died following a crash where the Uber in which he was riding was struck by a stolen car fleeing from Denver police. The Uber driver was also killed, and the driver of the stolen vehicle was convicted of two counts of vehicular homicide. Suthers has authored six books, including No Higher Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A Prosecutor Makes His Case (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008) and Becoming a Good Ancestor (Morris Publishing, 2011). His autobiography, "All This I Saw and Part of It I Was" (Gracepoint Publishing, 2023) was published in June 2023.