Everything about Anne M Burford totally explained
Anne M. Burford (b.
April 21 1942 – d.
July 18 2004) was the first female
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency from 1981-83, serving under President
Ronald Reagan.
Born
Anne Irene McGill in
Casper,
Wyoming, she was one of five daughters and a son. A distinguished student, she studied at the
University of Colorado at
Boulder, earning both a
bachelor and
law degree there.
She was also a
Fulbright Scholar, studying
criminal law in
India. She was an assistant
district attorney and later deputy district attorney in
Denver, was a corporate attorney for
Mountain Bell, and also served in the Colorado House of Representatives for two terms (1976 – 1980).
Known as
Anne M. Gorsuch (or Anne McGill Gorsuch), she later remarried and was also known as
Anne M. Burford.
Arriving at the EPA, she advocated regulatory reform and budgetary cuts. Under her leadership, the EPA's budget (excluding
Superfund) dropped by $200 million and staff was slashed 23%. Burford was later compelled to resign with twenty of her top employees after being found in
contempt of Congress in a 259-105 vote after refusing to disclose documents related to a conflict of interest involving the Superfund program.
Family
She was married twice, first to David Gorsuch (whom she divorced) and later to
Bureau of Land Management head, Robert Burford (whom she also divorced although the lengthy process wasn't completed before he died). She and Gorsuch had two sons and a daughter. One of her sons is
Neil M. Gorsuch, now a federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Anne Gorsuch died of
cancer, aged 62, in
2004.
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