NAME: Jeannie Lewis Ritter.
AGE; BIRTH DATE: 50; May 23, 1956, in Virginia.
EDUCATION: Gateway High School, Aurora; attended Western State College before transferring to the University of Northern Colorado, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in special education in 1978.
CAREER: Teacher, Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver; flight attendant, Texas International Airlines; Peace Corps, Tunisia, setting up centers for people with disabilities; missionary, Zambia, running food distribution and nutrition center; stay-at-home mom for 13 years before becoming substitute teacher for Denver Public Schools. She is not teaching while her husband is in office.
FAMILY: Married Bill Ritter in 1983; children August, Abraham, Sam and Tally.
INTERESTING FACT: Speaks Arabic and returned to Tunisia in 2002 to visit a family who calls her their “American daughter.”
WHAT SHE DRIVES: A 1993 Ford passenger van.
