Meet Bob Marshall

I was born and raised in Colorado, leaving the state after high school to attend Georgetown University on a full scholarship. After graduation I joined the Marine Corps, where I served six years on active duty. At that point in my military career I was selected for the law education program and sent to Cornell Law School. I graduated magna cum laude while simultaneously earning two degrees: a J.D. with specialization in business law and a LL.M. in International Law.

I returned home to Colorado in 2004 and moved to Highlands Ranch. Here, I began working for a large international law firm as a commercial litigation and appellate specialist. While there I wrote the "Appeals" section for the Practicing Law Institute's Securities Litigation Treatise; handled the appeal of the largest punitive damages case in Colorado history and did pro bono work through an appeal for Trout Unlimited to protect water flows in the Cache La Poudre river and taking action to stop a “Steer Tailing” event at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on behalf of an animal humane society. I also provided more than 300 pro bono hours to the Denver County Court as a guardian ad litem and was deputized as an Assistant City Attorney for three months to help prosecute criminal cases in Denver County Court.

In December 2005, the Marine Corps mobilized me for service as a Police Transition Team Leader to mentor and train the Iraqi police in Al Anbar province. I was further requested to serve as the Deputy General Counsel for the Joint IED Defeat Organization, for service on the Warrant Officer Selection Board (which chooses the future leadership of the Marine Corps); and was mobilized again as the Officer in Charge of Governance for Helmand Province, Afghanistan (where I also acted as the Religious Engagement Officer, supervised the Female Engagement Teams, and was the head of the Afghan Reintegration Program).

After Afghanistan, the State Department requested that I return to Afghanistan as a Senior Rule of Law advisor. An undiagnosed injury, however, led to assignment to Naval Medical Center San Diego where I spent the most rewarding six years of my legal career advising and taking care of wounded and ill Marines and Sailors. In my final year of service as a Disability Evaluation System (DES) Advisor, I concurrently attended the University of San Diego Law School full time, earning a LL.M. in Tax Law while graduating at the top of the class.