[3] Colvin received her bachelor's degree from Sweet Briar College and her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1993.
[5][6] Colvin was appointed to the Macon Circuit Superior Court by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal on March 24, 2014.
A March 25, 2016, address by Colvin to a group of students as part of a “Consider the Consequences” program for at-risk students that Judge Colvin was unaware was being recorded went viral and was viewed hundreds of thousands of times, picked up by local, national and international media, and played by teachers for their students.
[1] On March 27, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp appointed Colvin to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
[8] She is the state's first African-American female appointed to the Georgia Court of Appeals by a Republican governor.