A U.S. Senate committee March 20 began hearings on the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a visiting law professor at CU Boulder.

The president nominated Gorsuch, whose parents were both 1964 graduates of Colorado Law, in January.

Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge based in Denver, has taught ethics and antitrust law at Colorado Law since 2008. He lives in Boulder County.

The Senate Judiciary Committee opened its hearing late Monday morning. The committee plans to vote on the Gorsuch nomination no later than April 3. A vote of the full senate would follow.

Two CU Boulder alumni have served on the U.S. Supreme Court:  and Wiley Rutledge&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;(ł˘˛ą·É’22).

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Byron R. White (·ˇł¦´Ç˛Ô’38) came to notice for his athletic prowess, then proved himself a star in almost everything else.

Perhaps CU Boulder’s most celebrated alumnus, the football hero dubbed “Whizzer White” graduated first in his class, won a Rhodes Scholarship, served as a U.S. Naval officer, went to Yale Law School and, at age 44, became one of the youngest ever U.S. Supreme Court justices.

A Colorado native, White also ranks among the longest-serving justices — 31 years.

In this photograph, one in a series of CU football players, he was still a teenager.

White died in 2002, in Denver. He would have turned 100 this June.

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The president nominated Neil Gorsuch, a visiting professor at Colorado Law School, for the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, he would succeed Antonin Scalia, who died last year. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge based in Denver, has taught ethics and antitrust law at Colorado Law since 2008. He lives in Boulder. His parents, Anne Gorsuch Burford and David Gorsuch, were both members of Colorado Law’s Class of 1964. Gorsuch went to Harvard Law School. Two CU Boulder alumni have served on the U.S. Supreme Court: Byron White (·ˇł¦´Ç˛Ô’38) and Wiley Rutledge (ł˘˛ą·É’22).

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