Attorney Cathleen Collins graduated from Medford High School in 1998 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Immediately following college, she took a job as a paralegal in the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Cathleen subsequently enrolled in Suffolk University Law School's Evening Program and continued working for the attorney general throughout her law school career. She graduated from Suffolk Law in 2007 and was promoted to assistant attorney general shortly thereafter.