Updated on May 19.
The Ninth Justice is tracking all the names swirling around as possible Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice David Souter. As this list grows, we will update the list in alphabetical order. Want to submit a possible nominee? E-mail Amy Harder at aharder@nationaljournal.com.
Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney
• Age: 52
• Education: Loyola University in Chicago, 1982; Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1986.
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Her Cook County biography can be found here.
Christine M. Arguello, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
• Age: 53
• Education: University of Colorado, 1977; Harvard Law School, 1980
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Her court biography can be found here.
Ruben Castillo, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Age: 54
• Education: Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., 1976; Northwestern University School of Law, 1979.
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• His court biography can be found here.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• Age: 61
• Education: Wellesley College, 1969; Yale Law School, 1973.
• Ethnicity: white
• Her State Department biography can be found here and her National Journal profile here.
James B. Comey, former deputy attorney general in George W. Bush's administration
• Age: 48
• Education: College of William and Mary, B.S., 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1985
• Ethnicity: white
• His biography at Lockheed Martin, where he is currently senior vice president and general counsel, can be found here.
Nora V. Demleitner, Dean of Hofstra University Law School
• Age: 42
• Education: Bates College, 1989; Yale Law School, 1992; Georgetown University Law Center, 1994
• Ethnicity: white
• Her Hofstra University Law School biography can be found here.
JoAnne A. Epps, Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Education: Trinity College; Yale Law School
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her Temple University biography can be found here.
Dana Fabe, Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice
• Age: 58
• Education: Cornell University, B.A., 1973; Northeastern University School of Law, 1976.
• Ethnicity: white
Her court biography can be found here.
Merrick Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• Age: 56
• Education: Harvard College, 1974; Harvard Law School, 1977.
• Ethnicity: white
• His court biography can be found here and his National Journal profile here.
Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School professor
• Age: 50
• Education: Dartmouth College, 1981; Harvard Law School, 1984
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her New York Law School biography can be found here.
Jennifer Granholm, Michigan governor
• Age: 50
• Education: University of California at Berkeley, 1984; Harvard Law School, 1987.
• Ethnicity: white
• Her official governor's biography can be found here and her Almanac of American Politics profile can be found here (subscription).
Caitlin J. Halligan, former solicitor general of New York
• Education: Princeton University, 1988; Georgetown University, 1995
• Ethnicity: white
• Her Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP biography can be found here.
Eric Holder, Attorney General
• Age: 58
• Education: Columbia University, 1973; Columbia Law School, 1976.
• Ethnicity: African American
• His Justice Department biography can be found here and his National Journal profile here.
Valerie Jarrett, senior White House adviser
• Age: 52
• Education: Stanford University, 1978; University of Michigan Law School 1981.
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her White House biography can be found here.
Bernette Johnson, Louisiana Supreme Court justice
• Education: Spelman College, 1964; Louisiana State University Law School, 1969
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her court biography can be found here.
Elena Kagan, Solicitor General
• Age: 48
• Education: Princeton University, B.A., 1981; Worcester College, Oxford, Master's, 1983; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1986
• Ethnicity: white
• Her Harvard biography can be found here and her National Journal profile here.
Pam Karlan, Stanford Law professor
• Education: Yale University, 1980; Yale University, Master's, 1984; Yale Law • School, 1984
• Ethnicity: white
Her Stanford biography can be found here.
Harold Koh, nominee for State Department legal adviser and current dean of Yale Law School
• Age: 54
• Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1975; Oxford, B.A., 1977; Harvard Law School, 1980; Oxford, (Master's) 1996.
• Ethnicity: Korean-American
• His Yale Law School biography can be found here.
M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Age: 58
• Education: University of Wyoming, 1972; Georgetown University Law Center, 1975.
• Ethnicity: white
• Her court biography can be found here.
Martha Minow, professor at Harvard Law School
•Education: University of Michigan, A.B., 1975; Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1976; Yale Law School, 1979
•Ethnicity: white
•Her Harvard Law School biography can be found here.
Carlos R. Moreno, California Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Age: 60
• Education: Yale University, B.A., 1970; Stanford Law School, J.D., 1975
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• His court biography can be found here.
Alan Morrison, co-founder of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
• Age: 71
• Education: Yale University, 1959; Harvard Law School, 1966
• Ethnicity: white
• His biography from Harvard Law School can be found here.
Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security secretary
• Age: 51
• Education: Santa Clara University, 1979; University of Virginia School of Law, 1983
• Ethnicity: white
• Her DHS biography can be found here.
Patricia O'Hara, Dean of Notre Dame Law School
• Education: Santa Clara University, 1971; Notre Dame Law School, 1974
• Ethnicity: white
• Her Notre Dame Law School biography can be found here.
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts governor
• Age: 52
• Education: Harvard University, 1978; Harvard Law School, 1982
• Ethnicity: African American
• His official governor's biography can be found here and his Almanac profile can be found here (subscription).
John Payton, President and Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Age: 62
• Education: Pomona College, 1973; Harvard Law School, 1977
• Ethnicity: African American
• His NAACP Legal Defense Fund biography can be found here and his WilmerHale biography can be found here.
Johnnie B. Rawlinson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Age: 56
• Education: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 1974; McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, 1979
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her court biography can be found here.
Teresa Wynn Roseborough, chief litigation counsel at MetLife and former deputy assistant attorney general during Clinton administration
• Age: 50
• Education: University of Virginia, Bachelor's degree; Boston University, Master's degree in education; UNC School of Law, 1986.
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her biography with the American Constitution Society, where she is a board member, can be found here.
Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent
• Age: 54
• Education: Wartburg College, 1977, University of Iowa College of Law, 1980
• Ethnicity: white
• Her 2006 congressional campaign biography can be found here.
Vanessa Ruiz, D.C. Court of Appeals
• Age: 59
• Education: Wellesley College, 1972; Georgetown University Law Center, 1975.
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Her court biography can be found here.
Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
• Age: 53
• Education: Cornell University, 1976; Emory University School of Law, 1980; University of Virginia School of Law, LL.M Degree, 1995.
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her court biography can be found here.
Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
• Age: 54
• Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1976; Yale Law School J.D., 1979
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Her court biography can be found here and her National Journal profile here.
Bryan Stevenson, founding director of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative
• Age: 49
• Education: Eastern College, 1981; Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1985; Harvard Law School, 1985
• Ethnicity: African American
• His biography, per the Equal Justice Initiative, can be found here.
Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford Law school professor and partner at private firm in California
• Age: 53
• Education: Cornell University, 1976; University of Oxford, 1978; Harvard Law School, 1981.
• Ethnicity: white
• Her Stanford biography can be found here.
Cass Sunstein, nominee to head White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; professor at Harvard Law School and University of Chicago Law School
• Age: 54
• Education: Harvard College, 1975; Harvard Law School 1978
• Ethnicity: white
• His University of Chicago biography can be found here and his National Journal profile here.
Charles Swift, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander
• Age: Born 1960
• Education: U.S. Naval Academy, 1984; Seattle University School of Law, 1994
• Ethnicity: white
David Tatel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• Age: 67
• Ethnicity: white
• Education: University of Michigan, 1963; University of Chicago Law School, 1966.
• His court biography can be found here.
Patricia Timmons-Goodson, North Carolina Supreme Court justice
• Age: 54
• Education: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1976; UNC School of Law, 1979
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her court biography can be found here.
Kim Wardlaw, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Age: 54
• Education: UCLA, A.B. 1976; UCLA law, 1979
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Her Federal Judicial Center biography can be found here.
Ann C. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Age: 59
• Education: Wayne State University (Michigan), 1970; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Master's); Notre Dame Law School, 1975.
• Ethnicity: African American
• Her Cornell University Law School biography can be found here. Williams is on the steering committee for the school's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice.
Diane Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and lecturer at University of Chicago Law School
• Age: 58
• Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1971; University of Texas School of Law, 1975
• Ethnicity: white
• Her University of Chicago biography can be found here and her National Journal profile here.
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