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“In these exquisitely crafted stories, Colleen O’Brien perfectly captures and chronicles the lives of lapsed Catholic, Midwestern families shattered by divorce, alcoholism, domestic violence, dysfunction, and—perhaps most destructive of all— love: earnest, flailing, and too often insufficient.
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Colleen O’Brien is the author of All Roads, a collection of...
- Colleen O'Brien
Colleen O'Brien is KIRO Newsradio's news anchor on Seattle's Morning News. You can hear Colleen every weekday, 5am - 9am on KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM.
Colleen O'Brian is an Oakland County Circuit judge who ran with the Republican endorsement for the Michigan Supreme Court in 2012. She lost in the general election. O'Brian has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Detroit College of Law.
Colleen O’Brien is the Morning News Anchor at KIRO Newsradio. She’s been broadcasting since junior high, but began her professional career in Seattle radio.
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O'Brien received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1978 and her J.D.from Detroit College of Law in 1981.
O'Brien was an attorney in private practice at Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho PLC, with an emphasis in civil litigation, for 17 years before becoming a circuit court judge in late 1998. She was a judge on the Michigan 6th Circuit Court in Oakland County, appointed to the position by Gov. John Engler (R) and later elected to a full term by voters....
In December 2011, O'Brien dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU challenging ordinances in the city of Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham, in which they argued that they were preempted by the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act of 2008, on the basis that none of the plaintiffs were arrested. In August 2011, O'Brien granted a motion from the prosecutors to p...
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Colleen O’Brien is the author of All Roads, a collection of short stories (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) and Spool in the Maze, a poetry chapbook, which won the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press contest.
