Colbert I. “Colby” King writes a column -- sometimes about D.C.,
sometimes about politics -- on that runs on Saturdays. In 2003, he won
the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for “for his against-the-grain columns
that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom." He is also a
regular panelist on ABC’s "Inside Washington" and a regular commentator
on WTOP Radio. King joined the Post’s editorial board in 1990 and served
as deputy editorial page editor from 2000 to 2007. Earlier in his
career, he was an executive vice president of Riggs National Bank, U.S.
executive director of the World Bank, a deputy assistant secretary at
the Treasury Department, Democratic staff director of the Senate’s
District of Columbia Committee, a State Department diplomat stationed at
the U.S. embassy in Bonn and a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army
Adjutant General’s Corps. King grew up in Washington and attended Howard
University. He is married to Gwendolyn Stewart King and has three adult
sons.
U.S. Army officer
with the Adjutant General's Corps (1961–1963)
Special officer for
the United States Department of State (1964–1980)
Worker for
the Volunteers in Service to America (1971–1972)
Minority staff
director of the United States Senate
Committee on the District of Columbia (1972–1976), where he
helped draft the District of Columbia Home Rule Act
Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Department (1976–1979)
U.S. executive
director to the World Bank (1979–1980)
Executive vice
president of the Middle East and
Africa at Riggs Bank (1980–1990)
