Neil Gorsuch

His parents were Anne Gorsuch Burford (née McGill; 1942–2004) and David Ronald Gorsuch (1937–2001).

He was the eldest of three children, and is a fourth-generation Coloradan.

John Mcgill, his maternal grandfather, was a surgeon, and his paternal grandfather, John Gorsuch, was an established lawyer in Denver, Colorado.

Both of Gorsuch's parents were also attorneys.

They encouraged their children to engage in debate, often spontaneously.

Neil McGill Gorsuch (born August 29, 1967) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Gorsuch was born on August 29, 1967, in Denver, Colorado.

From 1976 to 1980, Anne Burford served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980.

Gorsuch was a member of Georgetown Prep's debate, forensics, and international relations clubs, and served as a United States Senate page in the early 1980s.

In 1981, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first woman to serve as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Her conservative views contrasted with those of her husband, who was a liberal.

Gorsuch attended Christ the King Roman Catholic School, a private grade school in Denver.

The school's moral lessons influenced him and he was remembered by classmates for assuming strong stances.

He assisted his mother in her campaign for the Colorado legislature at age nine.

After her appointment, Gorsuch's family moved to Bethesda, Maryland.

He enrolled in Georgetown Preparatory School, a selective Jesuit college-preparatory school, arriving as a freshman in 1981.

He was two years junior to future justice Brett Kavanaugh, a classmate he later clerked with at the Supreme Court.

He graduated in 1985 as student body president; in contrast to Kavanaugh, he was described as a fairly outgoing and extroverted student.

As an undergraduate, he wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator and co-founded the satirical student publication The Fed in 1986.

Gorsuch distinguished himself as an active debater and an ardent conservative, publishing pieces that criticized left-wing politics.

After a brief stint as a writer for a short-lived journal, he led efforts to establish The Fed as a conservative alternative to liberal campus newspapers.

He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

After graduating from Columbia, Gorsuch attended Harvard Law School on a Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

He was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and was a member of the Lincoln's Inn Society, the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, and the Harvard Defenders program.

Gorsuch was described as a committed conservative who supported the Gulf War and congressional term limits on "a campus full of ardent liberals".

Gorsuch attended Columbia University after high school, graduating in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in political science.

He undertook a heavier courseload to graduate in three years.

Gorsuch clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1991 to 1992 and U.S. Supreme Court justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy from 1993 to 1994.

He is the first Supreme Court justice to serve alongside a justice for whom he once clerked (Kennedy).

During his tenure on the Supreme Court he has written the majority opinion in landmark cases such as Bostock v. Clayton County on LGBT rights, McGirt v. Oklahoma on Native American law, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District on personal religious observance, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis on free speech, and Ramos v. Louisiana on juries' guilty verdicts.

From 1995 to 2005, Gorsuch was in private practice with the law firm of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick.

Gorsuch received his legal education at Harvard Law School and in 2004, after 10 years as a practicing attorney, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship.

His doctoral thesis concerned the morality of assisted suicide and was written under the supervision of legal philosopher John Finnis.

He was the principal deputy associate attorney general at the United States Department of Justice from 2005 until his appointment to the Tenth Circuit.

President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on May 10, 2006, to replace Judge David M. Ebel, who achieved senior status that same year.

Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution.

Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, he is an advocate of natural law jurisprudence.

He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.

Gorsuch spent his early life in Denver, Colorado, then lived in Bethesda, Maryland, while attending Georgetown Preparatory School.

Upon graduating, he matriculated at Columbia University, where he became an established writer.