Colleen Holmes Holcomb was president of Eagle Forum from 2020-22. She served as Executive Director of Eagle Forum’s Washington, D.C. office from 2008-2013. Colleen has continued as an Eagle Forum volunteer, and serves on the Eagle Forum Board of Directors.
Colleen is an attorney and a conservative activist. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Wellesley College, she earned a law degree from Regent Law School, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Graduate Award. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Regent University School of Communications and Arts.
Upon completing her studies, Colleen worked in the non-profit sector and held roles with the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Legal Society.
Colleen served as Executive Director of Eagle Forum’s Washington, D.C. office, where she oversaw Eagle Forum’s lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill and administrated the Eagle Forum Political Action Committee.
As a candidate, herself, Colleen showed great promise in her 2019 run for the Virginia House of Delegates. Although she did not win, she made an impressive showing as a conservative in a Democrat district.
With her husband Wayne, she practiced law with Holcomb Law, P.C. and co-founded Holcomb Mediation Center, an alternative dispute resolution center, both in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Colleen and Wayne also co-teach mediation classes as adjunct professors at Regent University Law School.
Wayne and Colleen have three children among them. Colleen is honored to be an adoptive mother, a stepmother, and although she has been a lifelong pro-life activist, her passion to protect the unborn took on a personal character when she gave birth to a stillborn son in 2014.
Colleen writes and speaks on a variety of pro-family and conservative issues. She has a passion for encouraging young women to reject the victimhood and bitterness associated with feminism and to embrace the equality that comes from God, not government, through the empowering philosophy of conservatism.
