Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice,
was born in Denver, Colorado, August 29, 1967. He and his wife Louise have two
daughters. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Harvard Law
School, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He served as a law clerk to Judge
David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, and as a law clerk to Justice Byron White and Justice Anthony
M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1995–2005, he was in
private practice, and from 2005–2006 he was Principal Deputy Associate Attorney
General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was appointed to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 2006. He served on the
Standing Committee on Rules for Practice and Procedure of the U.S. Judicial
Conference, and as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate
Procedure. He taught at the University of Colorado Law School. President Donald
J. Trump nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he
took his seat on April 10, 2017.