Gregory Scott Coleman (October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California – November 23, 2010 near Destin, Florida) was an American lawyer and the first Solicitor General of Texas, serving in that capacity from 1999 to 2001.
He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law (2001–2002) where he taught United States Supreme Court Advocacy.
[3] Born in San Francisco to a military family, he graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University in 1987, with a degree in applied mathematical sciences, and received an MBA from the same institution in 1989, summa cum laude.
He married Stephanie Miller Coleman in 1987 and had three sons: Chase, Austin and Reid.
He died on November 23, 2010, when a Piper Malibu plane he was piloting en route to a Thanksgiving family gathering crashed on approach to an airport in Destin, Florida; two other people on board, Coleman's mother-in-law Charlene Miller (63, an assistant vice president of Texas A&M's research and graduate studies division), and her brother, James Black (58, an observer of BP's Gulf Coast restoration program), also died in the crash.