Neil M. Gorsuch
| Neil Gorsuch | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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Assumed office April 10, 2017 |
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| Nominated by | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Antonin Scalia |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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In office August 8, 2006 – April 9, 2017 |
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| Nominated by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | David M. Ebel |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
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Neil McGill Gorsuch August 29, 1967 Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Gorsuch |
| Relations | Anne Gorsuch Burford (mother) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (JD) University College, Oxford (DPhil) |
Neil McGill Gorsuch (/ˈɡɔːrˌsʌtʃ/ born August 29, 1967) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to succeed Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, and is an advocate of natural law philosophy.
Gorsuch clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1991 to 1992, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, from 1993 to 1994. From 1995 to 2005, Gorsuch was in private practice with the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. Gorsuch was a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2005 to his appointment to the Tenth Circuit. Gorsuch was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006, to replace Judge David M. Ebel, who took senior status in 2006.
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