Kevin E. Ready has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver College of Law and his bachelors degree in Government and History from the University of Maryland, University College campus in Berlin, Germany.

Kevin served as a military officer in both the US Army and US Navy. After high school in Colorado, Kevin served as a intelligence analyst and Arabic and Russian Linguist for the US Army in Berlin, Germany. He was decorated for duties during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

After law school, in 1977,  Kevin went back into the military as a US Navy Surface Warfare officer and served in the Persian Gulf during the Iran Hostage incident.  

 After four years in the Navy, onboard ship, Kevin transferred to the US Army in order to practice law as an Army Judge Advocate officer.

Midwestern roots

Kevin was born in Iowa. His parents were farmers in Iowa and Minnesota. Kevin's mother, Orahlee, was an honest to goodness farm girl.

Kevin's family moved from the farm to the big city, Denver, after his birth. Kevin's father, George, worked as a steelworker and his mother as a restaurant cook for most of Kevin's youth. Kevin and Dad below.

Kevin's mother taught him to be a voracious reader. A used goods store, the Red Barn, near their house was visited every couple weeks to buy and trade in books. Kevin's favorite purchases were science fiction and fantasy novels and geography texts.

Kevin grew up in a Denver suburb, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He went to a fine high school and took Russian for six years in junior high and high school, which led to his first US Army job as a Russian linguist and, later, to his marriage to a beautiful girl he met in Russia years later, Olga Zavorotnova.

During high school and in law school Kevin worked at a large camera store in Denver. His love of photography stayed with him throughout the years.