Early Legal and Political Career
Gorsuch was first employed as an attorney with a bank trust department, then as the deputy district attorney in Denver, Colorado, and finally as a corporate attorney for Mountain Bell. Between 1976 and 1980 Gorsuch served in the Colorado House of Representatives, where she was voted Outstanding Freshman Legislator, but was considered by some to be a member of the "House Crazies," a group of "conservative lawmakers intent on permanently changing government."
In 1980, Gorsuch served on President-elect Reagan’s transition team as a member of his Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. Shortly after Reagan was inaugurated, he nominated her as Administrator of the EPA. The nomination was unanimously confirmed by the Senate three months later, on May 5, 1981.
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