Sherry F. Colb (May 3, 1966 – August 25, 2022) was an American legal scholar who served as the inaugural C.S.
She then enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude.
[1] After graduating from law school, Colb worked as a law clerk, first for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and later for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.
In 1993, she joined the faculty of Rutgers Law School, initially as an assistant professor; she later gained tenure and became the Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar there.
In 2008, she left Rutgers to join the faculty of Cornell, where she served as the Charles Evans Hughes Scholar before being named the inaugural C.S.