Neil Gorsuch
Neil McGill Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017 and has served since April 10, 2017. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard University, and after practicing law for 15 years received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Law from the University of Oxford. Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, he is an advocate of natural law jurisprudence.
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Neil McGill Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017 and has served since April 10, 2017. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard University, and after practicing law for 15 years received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Law from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis concerned the morality of assisted suicide, under the supervision of the Catholic legal philosopher John Finnis. Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, he is an advocate of natural law jurisprudence. He is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. His mother served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980, and his father was a U. S. Senate page in the early 1980s. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a prestigious Jesuit prep school, where he was two years junior to Brett Kavanaugh, with whom he would later clerk at theSupreme Court and eventually serve with as a Supreme Court justice. He served as a judicial clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle of the Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit from 1991 to 1992 and Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy from 1993 to 1994. In 1996, he married Louise, an English woman and champion equestrienne on Oxford’s riding team whom he met during his stay at Oxford. In 2004 he was awarded a DPhil in law from University College, Oxford. He decided to join a two-year-old boutique law firm, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, instead of joining an established law firm.
He has been a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 2005. He also served as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the United. States Department of Justice from 2005 until his appointment to the Tenth Circuit. He worked for the law firm from 1995 to 2005, when he was in private practice with the law law firm of Kellogg,. Hansen,. Todd, and Frederick. In 2006, he was nominated to the United United States Court of appeals for the Tenth. Circuit by President George W. Bush to replace Judge David M. Ebel, who took senior status in 2006, and was confirmed on May 10, 2006, to replace Ebel. His wife Louise is an Englishwoman and champion mountaineer who he married in 1996. She is the daughter of David Ronald Gorsuch and Anne Gorsuch Burford. A fourth-generation Coloradan, Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado, and attended Christ the King, a K–8 Catholic school. After high school, he attended Columbia University and graduated cum laude in 1988 with a bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He then attended Harvard Law School. Former President Barack Obama was one of Gorsuch’s classmates at Harvard Law. He is the first Supreme Court Justice to serve alongside a Justice for whom he once clerked. He was described as a committed conservative who supported the Gulf War and congressional term limits, on a campus full of ardent liberals.
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