3/15/2008 - By ADAM ZAGORIN
TIME Magazine
As the top lawyer for America's biggest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Gus Puryear IV is known to sport well-pressed preppy pink shirts, and his brownish mop of hair stands out among most of President Bush's graying nominees to the federal bench. A favorite of G.O.P. hard-liners, Puryear, 39, prepped Dick Cheney for the vice presidential debates — both in 2000 and 2004 — and served as a senior aide to two former Senators and onetime presidential hopefuls, Bill Frist and Fred Thompson.
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Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing website: http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=3076
Follow the nomination on THOMAS: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/nomis.html
Corrections Corporation of America's Website: http://www.correctionscorp.com/