September/October 2003 issue
New Judge for 8th Circuit: Judge Colloton
On September 4, 2003, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Steven M. Colloton to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Steven Colloton was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. He attended Princeton
University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1985. He received his
law degree from Yale University in 1988.
After graduating from law school he served for a year as a law clerk to Judge
Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit. He went on to serve as a law clerk to Justice William H. Rehnquist,
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, for the 1989-90 term.
From 1990 through 1991 he served as a special assistant to the Assistant Attorney
General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He then
returned to Iowa to work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northen District of
Iowa in Cedar Rapids. During 1995 and 1996 he was chosen to work in Kenneth W. Starr's
Office of Independent Counsel in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1997 he resumed his work at
the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cedar Rapids, where he prosecuted various federal
offenses, including drug trafficking, immigration offenses, firearms violations,
child pornography, and bank robbery. He also served for a time as Appellate Chief
for the U.S. Attorney in the Northen District of Iowa, supervising the appellate
litigation division.
He left the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1999 to become a partner in the firm of Belin
Lamson McCormick Zumback Flynn in Des Moines, Iowa, where he focused on civil and
commercial litigation.
In 2001 he returned to government work, serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of Iowa until his appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit. Judge Colloton was sworn in on September 30, 2003. Welcome, Judge
Colloton!
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