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Steamboat Springs — Rebecca Voymas says she has the same story as everyone else in town. Unsure about what she wanted to do with her life after graduating from college, she joined the ranks of Steamboat Springs' "highly educated service industry" - she worked as a waitress and bartender.

More than a decade later, Voymas is thrilled to be back, this time as Routt County's newest deputy district attorney.

A 2006 graduate of University of Colorado Law School, Voymas had been working in real estate litigation in Greeley when the opportunity to return to Steamboat arose.

"When I saw the job posting, my heart leapt," Voymas said. "I'd been wanting to get back into prosecution, and Routt County is the closest thing to home I have."

Voymas joins Chief Deputy District Attorney Carl Stahl and Deputy District Attorney Rusty Prindle in the District Attorney's Office. She began work Jan. 5.

Voymas is handling county court cases for the Steamboat office, 14th Judicial District Attorney Liz Oldham said Friday. Prindle, who had been handling county court cases since joining the office last year, will help Stahl with the county's felony cases in district court, Oldham said.

Voymas, who was raised in upstate New York, originally came to Steamboat after graduating from State University of New York at Geneseo. She spent seven years here, working at a variety of jobs including administrative positions with the Orton Family Foundation and the Yampa Valley Land Trust, before heading off to law school in Boulder.

After graduating, Voymas started her legal career as a prosecutor in the Weld County District Attorney's Office, before a brief stint in civil litigation.

Voymas and her husband returned to Steamboat for their 2007 wedding at Yampa River Botanic Park. Voymas said she'd always wanted to move back and return to public service, and her husband always had wanted to move to the mountains, so it was a "no-brainer" for them when the vacancy arose in Routt County.

Voymas said her experience in Weld County was an outstanding learning experience, and she said the major difference is the smaller caseload.

"It's a much different experience working in Weld County, because there's so much less crime here," Voymas said.

While she and seven other prosecutors were assigned to county court cases in Weld County, three do it all in Steamboat, she said.

"We have an outstanding team here. I'm very excited to work with everybody," Voymas said. "There's a deep respect between the defense bar and the DA's Office, and that's key to achieving justice."