John Marshall Sayre

Background

Sayre, John Marshall was born on November 9, 1921 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Son of Henry Marshall and Lulu M. (Cooper) Sayre.

Education

Bachelor, University Colorado, 1943. Juris Doctor, University Colorado, 1948.

Career

Worked at Davis, Graham & Stubbs Limited Liability Partnership (Denver, Colorado) specializing in General Practice. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy and Reorganization, Communications, Corporate, Employee Benefits, Energy, Environmental, Government Contracts, Health and Hospitals, Intellectual Property, International, Labor, Mining, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, Probate, Real Estate, Securities, Technology, Taxation, Toxic Torts, Trust and Estates, Water Law. Trials and Appeals.

Admitted to the bar, 1948, Colorado.

Phi Beta Kappa.

Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior for Water and Science, 1989-1993. Davis, Graham & Stubbs Limited Liability Partnership is a Colorado-based firm, founded in 1915, with approximately 100 lawyers. We started with a natural resources and general business practice that has broadened through the years.

We continue to represent the leading businesses in the Rocky Mountain region, as telecommunications, finance and advanced technology take their place alongside the more traditional agricultural and resource-based industries.

Achievements

• John Marshall Sayre has been listed as a reputable lawyer, government official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Boulder School District 3, 1951-1957. City attorney City of Boulder, 1952-1955. General counsel Colorado Municipal League, 1959-1963.

Principal counsel Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and municipal subdist., 1964-1987, special counsel, 1987, board directors district, 1960-1964. Former legal counsel Colorado Association Commerce and Industry. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, retired.

Fellow American Bar Foundation (life), Colorado Bar Foundation (life). Member American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Boulder County Bar Association (president 1959), Denver Bar Association, National Water Resources Association (Colorado director 1980-1989, 93-95, president 1984-1986), University Colorado N&T Resources Law Center (advisory board, 1993-2007), Denver Country Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Phi.

Connections

Married Jean Miller, August 22, 1943. Children: Henry M., Charles Franklin, John Marshall Junior, Ann Elizabeth Sayre Taggart (deceased).

Father:

Henry Marshall Sayre

Mother:

Lulu M. (Cooper) Sayre

Spouse:

Jean Miller

child:

Ann Elizabeth Sayre Taggart Sayre (deceased)

child:

John Marshall Junior Sayre

child:

Henry M. Sayre

child:

Charles Franklin Sayre