president of the Colorado Bar Association. He served as Colorado Commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from 1993 to 1997. United States Attorney In August 2001, Suthers was appointed by President George W. Bush as United States Attorney for the District of Colorado. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate and assumed the position the week before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 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. Colorado Attorney General 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. He served as the Chairman of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) in 2009-2010. In December 2008, Suthers personally argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Kansas v. Colorado. The issue was decided in favor of Colorado. In June 2012, Suthers was awarded the Kelley-Wyman Award by the National Association of Attorneys General. It is the highest award given by the Association and is presented annually to the Attorney General who has done the most to advance the interests of the Association. Suthers had been a principal