Neil Gorsuch

Neil McGill Gorsuch (born August 29, 1967) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.^[1]

Background

Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado. He is the son of Anne Gorsuch Burford (née Anne Irene McGill), the first female head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School and received a B.A. from Columbia University (where he was co-founder and first chief editor of the alternative newspaper The Fed and won a Truman Scholarship). He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and Doctorate of Legal Philosophy from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar at University College.

Gorsuch clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1991–1992, and then for United States Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy from 1993–1994.

From 1995–2005, Judge Gorsuch was in private practice with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. He was a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2005 until 2006.

His first book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, was published by Princeton University Press in July 2006. He is also a co-author of The Law of Judicial Precedent, published by Thomson West in 2016.

Tenth Circuit nomination and confirmation

Gorsuch was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006 to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated by Judge David M. Ebel (also a former clerk of Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White) who took Senior status in 2006. Gorsuch was confirmed just over two months later on July 20, 2006 by voice vote in the U.S. Senate.^[2] Gorsuch was President Bush's fifth appointment to the Tenth Circuit.

Since he took office, Gorsuch has sent some of his law clerks on to become Supreme Court clerks, and he is sometimes regarded as a "feeder judge."^[3] In September 2016, Gorsuch and his circuit colleague Timothy Tymkovich were named as possible nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States by president-elect of the United States Donald Trump. ^[4]

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

External links

• Neil Gorsuch at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  
• National Review article on litigation written by Gorsuch
• "Easy confirmation ahead for Gorsuch?" Denver Post, June 21, 2006
• "Gorsuch wins Senate confirmation," Denver Post, July 20, 2006