Anne Gorsuch Burford - Early Life and Education

Early Life and Education

Born Anne Irene McGill in Casper, Wyoming, she was one of six children of a surgeon and grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she attended St. Francis DeSales High School.

During three consecutive summers, she took classes in Spanish at the National University of Mexico. She studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a bachelors' degree in 1961 at the age of 19. She then attended the University of Colorado Law School where she gained a law degree in 1964 at the age of 22. McGill participated in the undergraduate Honors Program and Mortar Board society, and was an editor of the University of Colorado Law School’s law review.

She married David Gorsuch after finishing law school. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study criminal law for one year in Jaipur, India, and she and her husband travelled there together. The couple would had two sons and a daughter.

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