Before entering private practice, Colin servedas judicial law clerk to the Honorable James O. Ellison and the Honorable Sven Erik Holmes, both of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Association Chapter for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma.
Business and contract disputes, construction liability and matters involving intellectual property are focuses of his law practice.
Colin serves as an an Adjunct Settlement Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
He has served on the Tulsa County Bar Association Board of Directors and as Editor of The Tulsa Lawyer. He completed mediation training with the Oklahoma Mediation Institute in Civil, Commercial and Employment Mediation and qualified as a mediator for the City of Tulsa’s Project Early Settlement. Colin served a six-year term as a member of the board of Tulsa Zoo Friends, eight years on the board of Up With Trees, and also was a board member of Tulsa Data Science. He served a three-year term on the Alumni Council of Dartmouth College.
Education
Undergraduate School: Dartmouth College
Law School: Columbia University (Articles Editor, Journal of Law and the Arts)
Admitted to Practice
Oklahoma (including its three federal district courts)
Unites States Court of Appeals (Tenth Circuit)
Cherokee Nation
Choctaw Nation
Muskogee Creek Nation
Sac & Fox Nation
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
Awards
Outstanding Young Lawyer, Tulsa County Bar Association
