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Gregory Scott, Colorado's first and only Black Supreme Court justice, dead at 72


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 ....

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