Background
Colloton is the son of John W. Colloton, best known for his service as Director and Chief Executive Officer for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 1971 to 1993.
Colloton is the son of John W. Colloton, best known for his service as Director and Chief Executive Officer for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 1971 to 1993.
Both Steven and Ann attended public high school in Iowa City, Iowa at West High School.
Colloton is also the brother of Ann Colloton, an All-American athlete who swam for the University of Michigan swim team (1987–1990). Steven"s other sister, Laura Colloton Geissler is a reading specialist in Loudon County, Virginia. Colloton earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1985 and his law degree from Yale Law School in 1988.
While at Yale, Colloton served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1988 to 1989. He was then a law clerk for United States Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1989 to 1990.
Colloton served as a special assistant to the attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel within the United States. Justice Department from 1990 to 1991. He was an assistant United States. Attorney in the Northern District of Iowa from 1991 to 1999.
He was in private practice in Iowa from 1999 to 2001 and served as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Iowa College of Law in 2000.
After George West. Bush"s election in 2000, Colloton was appointed United States. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa and served until 2003. Colloton was nominated to the Eighth Circuit by President George West. Bush on February 12, 2003, to a seat vacated by David R. Hansen. He was confirmed nearly seven months later by a vote of 94-1 by the Senate on September 4, 2003, and received his commission on September 10, 2003.
