Donald R. Colvin
Donald Roy Colvin (July 2, 1918 – March 12, 1996) was an attorney in Los Angeles who worked as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas during the 1945 term.
Colvin was born in Denver to Emma Louise Seal and Ray Stuckey Colvin, a journalist. The family moved to Seattle, where he finished Queen Anne High School in 1936. He earned a BA and an LLB from the University of Washington, helped edit the Washington Law Review, and was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1944, then graduated first in his class in 1945.
After clerking for Justice Douglas, Colvin was admitted to the California Bar in 1947. He spent part of the early 1950s in New York as counsel for the New Jersey Central Railroad, later practicing law in Los Angeles. In 1955 he pleaded guilty in Spokane County, Washington, to four charges of grand larceny by writing bad checks totaling $400.
Colvin died in Los Angeles in 1996.
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