Neil Gorsuch

Neil Gorsuch's career is distinguished by his appointment to the Supreme Court at age 49, making him one of the youngest justices in recent history. He is the first Supreme Court justice to have clerked for two different justices (Byron White and Anthony Kennedy) and later served alongside one of them. His landmark opinions in Bostock v. Clayton County, McGirt v. Oklahoma, and Ramos v. Louisiana have reshaped American law on LGBTQ rights, tribal sovereignty, and criminal procedure. A 2023 Pace Law Review analysis identified him as the conservative justice most likely to rule in favor of marginalized people, a testament to his principled adherence to textualism and originalism. His academic achievements include a Marshall Scholarship and a doctorate from Oxford.