To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (685181 ) 6/9/2005 9:48:58 AM From: DuckTapeSunroof Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670 Possible Supreme Court Nominees June 9, 2005 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSnytimes.com Filed at 5:10 a.m. ET Some possible Supreme Court nominees if Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist steps down: --James Harvie Wilkinson III, appointed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., by President Reagan in 1984. He has built a solidly conservative record. --Michael McConnell, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A respected conservative legal scholar, he enjoys bipartisan support in the academic community. --J. Michael Luttig, a Texas native who worked in the Justice Department during the first Bush administration. He was named to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991. --Samuel Alito Jr., a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. He is nicknamed ''Scalito'' because he has views like Scalia. --John Roberts, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2003 and former Rehnquist clerk. --Miguel Estrada, a native of Honduras whose nomination to an appeals court was also blocked by Democrats. He is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. --Emilio Miller Garza, judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Bush's father, the first President Bush, considered the Hispanic judge a Supreme Court prospect. --Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a former White House counsel and Bush confidante. --Edith Jones, a judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and former general counsel for the Texas Republican Party. --Theodore B. Olson, Bush's solicitor general until last summer. He represented Bush in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case at the Supreme Court. --Larry Thompson, deputy attorney general and the Bush administration's highest-ranking black law-enforcement official until he quit in 2003. He is general counsel at PepsiCo. * Copyright 2005 The Associated Press