Should the Supreme Court justices really have more female members?”
Potential Obama nominees for the Supreme Court WASHINGTON — Sketches of potential candidates to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, listed alphabetically, with their pros and cons: WHO: Merrick B. Garland. CURRENT JOB: Judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. BACKGROUND: Garland was born in Chicago in 1952. Then-President Bill Clinton nominated him in 1997 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A Harvard law graduate, Garland clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1978-79 before entering government service as a special assistant U.S. attorney general. Garland left the Justice Department in 1981 and worked in private practice in Washington until 1993. He took a three-year break during that time to work as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. He was promoted to deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division in 1993 and in 1994 became principal ass
Sandra Day O’Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O’Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.[2] Prior to O’Connor’s appointment to the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona.[3] On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor.[4] President George W. Bush first unsuccessfully nominated Harriet Miers to replace O’Connor, then nominated Justice Samuel Alito to take her seat in October 2005, and he joined the Court on January 31, 2006. O’Connor is Chancellor of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2001, the Ladies’ Home Journal ranked her as the second-most-powerful woman in America.[5] In 2004 and 2005,
