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First Black Supreme Court justice in Colorado dies at 72
By Associated Press
Published April 5, 2021
Gregory Kellam Scott, was sworn onto the court in 1993 after being appointed by Gov. Roy Romer; passes on Wednesday (Twitter)
Gregory Kellam Scott, the only Black justice to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court, died unexpectedly at his home in Indiana. He was 72. Scott died Wednesday, the Denver Post reported.
He was sworn onto the court in 1993 after being appointed by Gov. Roy Romer. He served seven years before stepping down to become vice president and general counsel of Kaiser-Hill LLC, a private company contracted to clean up a former nuclear weapons facility in the Denver suburbs.
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Gregory Kellam Scott, the only Black justice to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court, died unexpectedly at his home in Indiana. He was 72.
Scott died Wednesday, the
He was sworn onto the court in 1993 after being appointed by Gov.
Roy Romer. He served seven years before stepping down to become vice president and general counsel of Kaiser-Hill LLC, a private company contracted to clean up a former nuclear weapons facility in the Denver suburbs.
Gregory Kellam Scott (credit: Rutgers University)
When announcing his retirement from the court, Scott said it had been an “experience of a lifetime.”
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Gregory Kellam Scott, the first Black Colorado Supreme Court justice and one of its youngest, died Wednesday in Indiana, where he lived. He was 72.
Scott is the only Black person to have served on the high court, and was an appointee of Gov. Roy Romer. His term lasted from 1993 until his retirement 1999.
“He felt, I think, an obligation to make sure that the experiences that he had had in life were voiced in the conversations where they would enrich the thought process,” former Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis said in a news release from the Supreme Court.
During his time on the bench, Scott issued a concurring opinion in the 1994 decision of