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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Who would YOU like President Obama's next pick for the Supreme Court to be? [View all]OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)36. Diane Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Pamela_Wood
Also, I favor an amendment to the Constitution limiting service on the SCOTUS to 24 years (6 presidential terms). The way it works now, the incentive is to go young, rather than look for a more senior jurist.
Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Wood was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. When she was young, she moved with her family to Texas, where her mother still lives. Wood graduated with a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin's Plan II Honors program in 1971. She earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, where she was an editor of the Texas Law Review, graduated with high honors and Order of the Coif, and was among the first women at the University of Texas admitted as a member of the Friar Society. Wood then clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1975 to 1976 and for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977. She was among the first women to clerk at the Supreme Court.
After working in private practice and the executive branch, Wood became the third woman ever hired as a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Wood was nominated to the Seventh Circuit by President Bill Clinton on March 31, 1995. She is considered a liberal intellectual counterweight to the Seventh Circuit's conservative heavyweights, Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook.
Commentators have called Wood a leading candidate for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. She was a candidate to replace Justice David Souter when he left the bench in 2009, though that seat went to Sonia Sotomayor. In 2010, she was on the short list of potential nominees to take retiring Justice John Paul Stevens' seat, but that nomination instead went to U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan.
Wood was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. When she was young, she moved with her family to Texas, where her mother still lives. Wood graduated with a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin's Plan II Honors program in 1971. She earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, where she was an editor of the Texas Law Review, graduated with high honors and Order of the Coif, and was among the first women at the University of Texas admitted as a member of the Friar Society. Wood then clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1975 to 1976 and for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977. She was among the first women to clerk at the Supreme Court.
After working in private practice and the executive branch, Wood became the third woman ever hired as a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Wood was nominated to the Seventh Circuit by President Bill Clinton on March 31, 1995. She is considered a liberal intellectual counterweight to the Seventh Circuit's conservative heavyweights, Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook.
Commentators have called Wood a leading candidate for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. She was a candidate to replace Justice David Souter when he left the bench in 2009, though that seat went to Sonia Sotomayor. In 2010, she was on the short list of potential nominees to take retiring Justice John Paul Stevens' seat, but that nomination instead went to U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan.
Also, I favor an amendment to the Constitution limiting service on the SCOTUS to 24 years (6 presidential terms). The way it works now, the incentive is to go young, rather than look for a more senior jurist.
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Poll: Who would YOU like President Obama's next pick for the Supreme Court to be? [View all]
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
OP
This is the first time a poll I've posted has gone this long with an 'Other' being posted.
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#7
Links below with bios for the folks unfamilar with Lessing, Strossen, Leiter, Kramer...
Tx4obama
Apr 2013
#20
There are probably a bunch of other reasons he wouldn't be chosen, too.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#22
Well, one name that is not on that list is a person I know that certainly should be considered.
Major Hogwash
May 2013
#33
What's his name? And no one said the next one would actually be under 45 :shrug:
Tx4obama
May 2013
#34
I talked to him last year about this, and he said that he would be interested, but doubted . .
Major Hogwash
May 2013
#35
We need a black woman on this court. Kamala is not only that. More importantly, she is probably
Liberal_Stalwart71
May 2013
#39
That makes sense, but didn't Sotomayor come to court with no judicial experience?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2013
#45
I hope I live long enough to see 5 females and 4 males on the court. Or at least...
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#41
Should not the question be 'Who will the Presidents Corporate handlers tell him who to Nominate
YeahSureRight
Jun 2013
#44
Need two polls. Who would you like to see on the court, and who out of those who can be confirmed...
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#49
I love 2 for completely different reasons. Kamala Harris because I know exactly
DevonRex
Jun 2013
#58