Who is Trump's US Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch?
Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court and the youngest candidate for 25 years, Neil Gorsuch studied law alongside Barack Obama but has earned praise from the political right.
The Denver appeals court judge has previously lashed out at liberals in opinion articles and been cheered by American conservatives for his defence of religious freedoms.
He wrote a 2006 book The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in which he argued vehemently against ending lives and in court famously sided with a major craft store chain that denied staff contraception coverage for religious reasons.
The 49-year-old is also no stranger to Republican presidents, having served for two years in George W. Bush's Department of Justice before Bush nominated him to the appeals court.
His mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, headed the Environmental Protection Agency in Ronald Reagan's administration before resigning in a bitter dispute with Congress over her alleged mishandling of a $1.6 billion (£1.2 billion) toxic waste fund.
Like the current eight justices on the Supreme Court, America's highest court, Gorsuch has an Ivy League law degree.
The Colorado native earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in three years, before gaining his law degree at Harvard, in the same class as Obama.
Gorsuch studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he met his future wife Marie Louise.
The couple have two teenage daughters, Emma and Belinda, and raise horses, chickens and goats at the family home in Boulder, Colorado. Away from work Gorsuch's hobbies include fly-fishing and hunting.
The conservative judge is known on the Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals for clear, colloquial writing, advocacy for court review of government regulations, defence of religious freedom and scepticism toward law enforcement.
His political views are evident from his writings outside of the court.
In 2005 he wrote an opinion piece before for National Review, before he became a federal judge, in which he condemned liberals.
His 2013 siding with the employers of craft chain Hobby Lobby in the contraception case came before it was heard at the Supreme Court, which upheld the verdict by a vote of 5-4 a year late.
Gorsuch's replacement of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year, would restore the nine-seat Supreme Court's 5-4 conservative majority.