Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Neil Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation, 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.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and Doctor of Philosophy in Law from University College, Oxford.

On 31 January 2017, Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump for the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court associate justice on 10 April 2017.

Sources

• "Neil Gorsuch." Wikipedia. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch > Accessed 31 January 2017; reaccessed 10 April 2017.
• Winston, Kimberly. "5 faith facts on Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch." Religion News Service, published 31 January 2017. < http://religionnews.com/2017/01/31/5-faith-facts-on-the-presumed-su... > Accessed 1 February 2017.