For Chattanooga auto dealer Tim Kelly, hearing the name “Neil Gorsuch” was a definite blast from the past.
Years ago and miles away, the two were Columbia University classmates and “budding journalists,” writing for the Columbia Daily Spectator.
They were acquaintances, not close friends. Then Gorsuch graduated a year early, in 1988.
“I had lost track of him – I thought he was a journalist. I didn’t even know he was a lawyer, much less a Supreme Court nominee,” said Kelly, who completed his education and came back to join the family’s extensive motor vehicle sales business here.
But Kelly’s not too surprised his former classmate is likely to be seated on the United States Supreme Court.