Background
He is the son of former Governor of Utah Scott M. Matheson and the elder brother of Utah"s former 4th District Congressman, Jim Matheson.
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Scott Milne Matheson
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University of Oxford. Magdalen College; Stanford University. Yale Law School.
Career
Born and raised in Utah, Matheson earned an Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1975, an Master of Arts in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1980. Matheson worked as an associate attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1981 until 1985. He joined the faculty of the University of Utah in 1985, and served as dean of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah from 1998 until 2006.
Matheson also is a former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, District of Columbia. From 1988 until 1989, Matheson served as deputy county attorney for Salt Lake County, Utah.
From 1989 until 1990, Matheson taught First Amendment law at Harvard University"s John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1993 until 1997, Matheson took a leave from the University of Utah to serve as a United States Attorney.
Matheson was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 2004, losing to Republican Jon Huntsman, Junior. with 41.3% of the vote. Matheson is the author of the book Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times (2009).
On March 3, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Matheson to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to replace Michael McConnell, who resigned in August 2009 to return to academia.
Sources such as Fox News Channel and Conservative magazine The Weekly Standard alleged that Obama hoped to influence Matheson"s brother to vote for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acting. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, "Republican Jim Matheson called the claim simply absurd, as did the White House, Senator.
Orrin Hatch and pretty much everyone who knows the Mathesons." Hatch, an establishment conservative Republican from Utah, agreed to support Matheson and to help shepherd the nomination through the Senate.
On December 22, 2010, the United States. Senate voted on and approved the nomination. He received his judicial commission on December 27, 2010.
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