Barack Obama's nomination of Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior, Colorado's other Senate seat was vacated January 20, 2009, and Mark became Colorado's senior Senator after just three weeks in office. In 2014, he was defeated for re-election by Republican Cory Gardner. Milan Dale Smith, Jr., Gordon Smith's brother, was nominated to the federal judiciary by George W. Bush in 2006. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate (including his brother), and he currently serves on the U.S. Ninth Circuit. David King Udall, son of Mesa councilman David K. Udall, serves as a Superior Court Judge in Maricopa County, Arizona (since 2001). His brother Jesse is married to Michelle Udall who was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2016. Mike Lee and Thomas R. Lee, though not Udalls, are second cousins to Mark and Tom Udall and Gordon Smith; their father, Rex E. Lee, a well-known scholar of Constitutional Law and Solicitor General from 1981 to 1985, was a first cousin of Stewart and Morris Udall; Mike Lee serves as a United States Senator from Utah (since 2011), and Thomas R. Lee is an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. Family tree See also Lee–Hamblin family The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona Notes References Further reading External links Udall Family of Arizona at The Political Graveyard Individual officeholder sites Mark Udall's US Senate Homepage Tom Udall's US Senate Homepage University of Arizona collections Morris K. Udall collection at the University of Arizona Stewart L. Udall collection at the University of Arizona David King Udall collection at the University of Arizona Levi S. Udall collection at the University of Arizona Jesse A. Udall collection at the University of Arizona Latter Day Saint families People from Arizona Political families of the United States