Gorsuch Hires Native American Law Clerk, Likely First in SCOTUS History
"Justice Gorsuch has already brought a diverse group of clerks to the court and I am honored to deepen that diversity," says Tobi Young, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and general counsel to the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
April 14, 2018 at 11:35 AM
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Justice Neil Gorsuch at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Conference in San Francisco. Credit: Jason Doiy/ ALM
Updated on April 16 at 11:53 a.m.
In what appears to be a historic first, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has hired Tobi Young, a Native American lawyer, to be one of his law clerks starting this summer.
An Oklahoma-born citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and currently general counsel to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Young is believed to be the first Native American to serve as a law clerk for a justice. The Chickasaw Nation announced her appointment on Friday.
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