Scott Matheson, Jr.
| Scott Milne Matheson Jr. | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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Assumed office December 27, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael W. McConnell |
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| Born |
Scott Milne Matheson III July 1953 (age 63) Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Stanford University B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford M.A. Yale Law School J.D. |
Scott Milne Matheson Jr., (born III), (born July 1953) was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah from 1993 to 1997 and is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is the son of former Governor of Utah Scott M. Matheson and the elder brother of Utah's former 4th District Congressman, Jim Matheson.
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Matheson earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Stanford University in 1975, an Master of Arts degree in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1980.
Matheson worked as an associate attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, from 1981 until 1985. He joined the faculty of the University of Utah in 1985, and served as dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah from 1998 until 2006. Matheson also is a former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. From 1988 until 1989, Matheson served as deputy county attorney for Salt Lake County. From 1989 until 1990, Matheson taught First Amendment law at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1993 until 1997, Matheson took a leave from the University of Utah to serve as a United States Attorney. Matheson was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 2004, losing to Republican Jon Huntsman Jr. with 41.4% of the vote. Matheson is the author of the book Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times (2009).
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