Wilbur O. Colom is an eminent attorney and businessman who has used much of his resources in the support of philanthropic works. He is the founding, senior partner of the Colom Law Firm, with offices in Columbus and Jackson, Mississippi, and in Atlanta, Georgia. As a young lawyer, barely five years out of law school, he argued Mississippi University for Women vs. Hogan before the Supreme Court, successfully establishing the major precedent abolishing single-sex, state-supported education.