THE SUPREME COURT
Potential Supreme Court Nominees
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– The Short List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees
 Michael Luttig -- Age: 51
Graduated from: University of Virginia School of Law.
He clerked for: then Judge Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice Warren Burger.
He used to be: White House assistant counsel for Ronald Reagan and in the Justice Department during the administration of George H.W. Bush.
He's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (appointed 1991).
Emilio Garza -- Age: 58
Graduated from: University of Texas School of Law.
He used to be: a Marine captain, a Texas trial judge, a U.S. District Court judge in the Western District of Texas.
He's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (appointed 1991).
 Michael McConnell -- Age: 50
Graduated from: University of Chicago Law School.
He clerked for: Judge Skelly Wright, Justice William Brennan.
He used to be: a law professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Utah, an appellate attorney for Mayer Brown.
He's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit (appointed 2002).
J. Harvie Wilkinson III -- Age: 60
Graduated from: University of Virginia School of Law.
He clerked for: Justice Lewis F. Powell.
He used to be: a law professor at the University of Virginia. He was also at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration and served as the editorial-page editor of the Virginian-Pilot.
He's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (appointed 1984).
Edith Brown Clement -- Age: 57
Graduated from: Tulane Law School.
She clerked for: Judge Herbert W. Christenberry.
She used to be: a judge on the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.
She's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (appointed 2001).
Samuel Alito -- Age: 55
Graduated from: Yale Law School.
He clerked for: Judge Leonard Garth.
He used to be: deputy assistant attorney general under Reagan, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
He's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (appointed 1990).
Other possible candidates:
Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson;
Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones;
Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Court of Appeals;
Maura Corrigan, a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court;
Cecilia M. Altonaga, a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of Florida;
Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law School professor;
Karen Williams from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.;
Priscilla Owen, who was just confirmed for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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