Cathleen Colvin

Cathleen Colvin formerly served as general counsel of Pall Corporation in Port Washington, New York, and identifies herself professionally as the owner and founder of Colvin Law LLC. Her professional profile dates the new business to January 2025 and the end of her Pall general counsel tenure to September 2024.

Before joining Pall, Colvin worked at Shearman & Sterling in two separate periods, from 1993 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2002. Between those appointments, her profile lists a foreign consultant position with Baker & MacKenzie in Santiago, Chile. She subsequently served as senior counsel at Rainbow Media Communications in Jericho, New York, from 2002 to 2007. At Pall, her listed positions included corporate counsel and chief compliance officer before and during her general counsel tenure. She graduated from Yale University and Fordham University School of Law.

Colvin also founded the Marie Colvin Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation and is listed on the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting’s advisory board. The fund supports charitable and educational organizations focused on humanitarian aid, human rights, journalism and education.

In 2016, Colvin and her three children brought a lawsuit against Syria over the killing of her sister, war correspondent Marie Colvin. She participated as a plaintiff, represented by counsel including Shearman & Sterling and the Center for Justice & Accountability. Her declaration filed in March 2018 identified her position at that time as Pall’s general counsel.