Timothy M. Tymkovich
| Timothy Michael Tymkovich | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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Assumed office October 1, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mary Beck Briscoe |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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Assumed office April 1, 2003 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | John Carbone Porfilio |
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Timothy Michael Tymkovich November 2, 1956 Denver, Colorado |
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Colorado College B.A. University of Colorado Law School J.D. |
Timothy Michael Tymkovich (born November 2, 1956) is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Tymkovich is a third-generation Coloradan; his great-grandfather emigrated from Ukraine to the United States via Ellis Island and worked as a miner. Tymkovich received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Colorado College in 1979 and his Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado Law School 1982. He then clerked for Justice William Erickson, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, from 1982 to 1983.
From 1983 to 1991, Tymkovich worked in private practice in Denver and Washington, D.C. In 1991, Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton appointed him Solicitor General of the State of Colorado. Tymkovich served in that position until 1996, arguing several cases in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. Most notably, in Romer v. Evans (1996), he unsuccessfully argued that Colorado's Amendment 2 (which revoked local legal protections for members of the LGBT community) was not unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. He then returned to private practice in Denver.
President George W. Bush initially nominated Tymkovich to the seat on the Tenth Circuit on May 25, 2001, and was renominated January 7, 2003. President Bill Clinton previously had nominated Christine Arguello for the seat, but she never received a hearing or a vote from the U.S. Senate. Tymkovich was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 58-41 vote after waiting for almost two years on April 1, 2003, and he received his commission the same day. Tymkovich replaced Judge John Carbone Porfilio, who took senior status. He became Chief Judge on October 1, 2015. In September 2016, Tymkovich and his circuit colleague Neil Gorsuch were named as possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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