Bob Marshall

Robert "Bob" Marshall is an American politician who is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 43rd district, which includes most of Highlands Ranch. He was elected in 2022 and assumed office in January 2023. Background Marshall was born and raised in Evergreen, Colorado. Marshall attended Georgetown University and joined the Marines after graduating. He attended Cornell Law School and worked as a senior defense counsel and then station judge advocate at a Marine Corps Air Station in Japan. He then worked as a clerk on the US Court of Appeals and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Afterwards, Marshall earned an LLM in Tax Law from the University of San Diego School of Law and worked at the IRS. Marshall was a Republican for over 30 years, but became a Never Trumper in 2017 over the party's embrace of Donald Trump and Trump's negative statements made towards the family of Humayun Khan. The GOP's embrace of US Senate candidate from Alabama and alleged sexual predator Roy Moore caused Marshall to defect from the party, though Marshall stayed politically unaffiliated until he joined the Democratic Party in 2021. Political career Before his candidacy, Marshall was active in local county politics. He sued the Douglas County School Board back in early 2022, accusing them of allegedly violating Colorado's open-meetings law before they terminated the superintendent which seen as a controversial decision.