Keith Killian

J. Keith Killian is the managing shareholder of Killian, Davis & Richter, P.C., the Grand Junction, Colorado, injury firm he established in 1991. He represents seriously injured people and their families across Colorado’s Western Slope.

Before starting the firm, Killian was a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air Force, where he handled criminal prosecution and defense, international law matters and discharge boards. He later worked as a Colorado state public defender and then at a firm that represented insurance companies, experience that put him in the courtroom early in his career. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Colorado, and he is admitted before the Colorado Supreme Court, the Navajo Nation Supreme Court, several federal district and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Killian is a past president and board member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, serves on the Colorado Bar Association’s Legislative Policy Committee and the board of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., and is a Leaders Forum member of the American Association for Justice. He has been named a Colorado Super Lawyer every year from 2006 through 2026. He lives in Western Colorado, where he is active in his church and community and enjoys tennis and time with family.