Donald Roy Colvin (July 2, 1918 – March 12, 1996) was an attorney in Los Angeles, California, who clerked for Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1945 Term.
Donald Colvin was born in Denver, Colorado, to Emma Louise Seal (August 6, 1891 – December 13, 1972) and Ray Stuckey Colvin (February 4, 1885 – December 17, 1959), a journalist from Illinois who was city editor of the Rocky Mountain News, and later the night managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
[1] The family moved to Seattle, where Donald graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1936.
[4] Colvin's clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court for William O. Douglas during the 1945 Term followed Lucile Lomen, the first woman to clerk and a fellow graduate of Queen Anne High School.
[5] In the early 1950s, he was counsel to the New Jersey Central Railroad Company in New York City.