Michael Joseph Colbert (1865 - ?) was an alumnus of Georgetown University, a lawyer, and faculty member at Georgetown University Law School. He earned four degrees from Georgetown: an A.B. in 1883, an A.M., an LL. B in 1885, and an LL. M in 1886.
Colbert was born on November 21, 1865 to Matthew Colbert and Joanna Mountain in Washington, D.C. Before entering Georgetown, he was a student at a Washington school run by the Dominican Sisters, and then at Gonzaga College for five years. After earning his A.B. and A.M., he was employed at the law firm of Merrick & Morris while attending law school. He was admitted to the bar in June 1886. In 1893, Merrick & Morris (which had become Morris & Hamilton in 1885) changed its name to Hamilton & Colbert to reflect his partnership.1
Colbert taught classes on personal property law and the law of wills at the Law School until he resigned in 1911.2 On June 10, 1902 he married Cecilia L. Sullivan with whom he had a daughter, Helen Louise Colbert.3
The year of his graduation from Georgetown, he won the Hoffman Mathematical Medal.4
- 1James S. Easby-Smith, Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907, its founders, benefactors, officers, instructors and alumni. Vol. 2, New York: Lewis, 1907, p. 103. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433076015860?urlappend=%3Bseq=119
- 2William E. Leahy, "Law School Notes," Georgetown College Journal, October 1911, Vol. XL No. 1, p. 19. http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1049854
- 3James S. Easby-Smith, Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907, its founders, benefactors, officers, instructors and alumni. Vol. 2, New York: Lewis, 1907, p. 103. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433076015860?urlappend=%3Bseq=119
- 4"Commencement Day," Georgetown College Journal, July 1883, Vol. XI No. 10., p. 112. http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1044362
