Dean Colson
Managing Partner, Colson Hicks Eidson, Miami
South Florida native Colson has chaired the state university system’s Board of Governors, the board of trustees for Florida International University and the similar board for the University of Miami. He’s chaired a Super Bowl Host Committee and been president of the Orange Bowl Committee. After earning a bachelor’s from Princeton, Colson went to the University of Miami School of Law where he graduated magna cum laude. He clerked for then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist. Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Colson to the Federal Courts’ Standing Rules Committee. He’s served as president of the Dade County Bar, a member of the Florida Bar Board of Governors, the Florida Commission on Ethics and the state Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.
