Colleen Jenkins is a courts reporter in Tampa. She writes about judges, lawyers, criminal and civil cases and anything else that goes on at the courthouse.

She began at the Times in 2003. She hopscotched her way down the North Suncoast, working stints in Citrus and Pasco counties before landing in Hillsborough. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and majored in journalism and American studies.

Phone: (813) 226-3337

E-mail: cjenkins@tampabay.com

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