A handful of minority bar associations met with White House officials last week to discuss nominating a person of color to the high court.

The discussion took place at the Coalition of Bars of Color annual conference, and NationalJournal.com has confirmed that the National Native American Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the Hispanic National Bar Association all took part in the meeting.

The meeting came after bar associations representing Asian Americans and Native Americans sent letters to the White House urging the administration to nominate someone coming from their respective demographics.

Both letters include names of people the groups deem qualified for the high court, such as John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, and Susan Oki Mollway, a federal district judge in Hawaii. But while the administration officials seemed open to the groups' concerns, they would not discuss any specific candidates in the meeting, said National Native American Bar Association President Heather Thompson.

While there has been much discussion of the possibility of nominating a Hispanic or African American, Asian and Native American interests have gone largely unheard. Thompson said this was the first such letter her organization has sent regarding a high court nomination. "Other associations have been more organized about putting names forward," she said.

"While much of America is underrepresented on the Supreme Court, the U.S. has never appointed an individual indigenous to this country to its Supreme Court," the letter from the Native American group states. It goes on to emphasize that there "is not a single Native on the federal bench in the entire country, and to the best of our knowledge there has never been a Native American Supreme Court clerk." Thompson added, however, that "we would support any person of color that was put forward on the bench."

The Women's Bar Association of D.C. also sent a letter to Obama Thursday urging him to appoint a woman.