Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb‎

{{Short description|American politician (born 1952)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb

|state_senate=Louisiana State

|district=14th

|term_start=January 2008

|term_end=January 2020

|preceded=Cleo Fields

|successor=Cleo Fields

|office1=Member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives
from the 67th district

|preceded1=John Michael Guidry

|succeeded1=Patricia Haynes Smith

|term_start1=April 1993

|term_end1=January 2008

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1952|8|19}}

|party=Democratic

|spouse=Sterling Colomb, Jr.

|residence=Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

|children=2

}}

Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb (born August 19, 1952) is an American politician from the state of Louisiana who represented the 14th district in the Louisiana State Senate from 2008 until 2020. A Democrat, she is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, of which she had been chosen Speaker Pro Tempore.

Dorsey-Colomb and her husband, Sterling Colomb, Jr., reside in the capital city of Baton Rouge. Sterling founded the Colomb Foundation to raise awareness of breast cancer. Though John Neely Kennedy, the state treasurer, listed the foundation as not adhering to state laws on disclosing their financial information,{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/baton_rouge_lawmaker_says_trea.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812041511/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/baton_rouge_lawmaker_says_trea.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 12, 2013 |title=Baton Rouge lawmaker says state treasurer made mistake in listing her husband's agency as violating rules |publisher=NOLA.com |access-date=December 6, 2013}} a later investigation found the foundation to be in compliance with all state laws.{{cite web|url=http://www.katc.com/news/the-colomb-foundation-found-compliant-with-state/ |title=The Colomb Foundation Found Compliant With State | KATC.com | Acadiana-Lafayette, Louisiana |publisher=KATC.com |access-date=December 6, 2013}}