The White House announced a slate of federal circuit and district judicial nominees - some new, some repeated. Below is a list of nominees with a little initial information

Circuit
Raymond Kethledge of Michigan to the Sixth Circuit. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law College in 1993. He clerked for Judge Ralph Guy of the Sixth Circuit and for Justice Kennedy from 1997-1998. He was Judiciary Counsel for Sen. Spencer Abraham from 1995-1997. Since 1998, he has worked in the private and corporate sector.

Stephen Joseph Murphy, III of Michigan to the Sixth Circuit. He graduated from the St. Louis University School of Law in 1987. He served in the U.S. Dept. of Justice until 1992, when he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Since 2000, he has worked in the corporate sector and as a public arbitrator, along with teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit School of Law and Ave Maria School of Law. In 2005, he became the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

District
Sharion Aycock of Mississippi to the Northern District of Mississippi.

David Dugas of Louisiana to the Middle District of Louisiana.

James Randal Hall of Georgia to the Southern District of Georgia.

Richard H. Honaker of Wyoming to the District of Wyoming.

Richard A. Jones of Washington to the Western District of Washington.

Robert Jones Jonker of Michigan to the Western District of Michigan.

Paul Lewis Maloney of Michigan to the Western District of Michigan.

Janet T. Neff of Michigan to the Western District of Michigan.

Janis Lynn Samartino of California to the Southern District of California.

Jan Crawford Greenberg, author of Supreme Conflict, who will be speaking at the RNLA National Policy Conference on March 30 has a very interesting posting on her blog about RNLA friend and former Solicitor General Ted Olson's support of Rudy Giuliani and the kinds of Supreme Court Justices Mayor Giuliani would appoint.


"Giuliani himself has said he wants to nominate justices like Roberts and Alito, Scalia and Thomas. In an interview just last week he told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt 'that would be my goal,' praising those conservative stalwarts for the 'intellectual honesty with which they interpret the law.' And this week, he tapped prominent conservative Washington lawyer Theodore Olson, his old friend from their days in the Reagan Justice Department, to chair his Judicial Advisory Council, heading up a team of lawyers advising him on judges and other legal issues. Olson has known Giuliani 25 years, when they both worked in the Justice Department under Atty. Gen. William French Smith. Giuliani was associate attorney general, and Olson was assistant attorney general, heading up the Office of Legal Counsel."

". . . How's this for a litmus test: Would Rudy Giuliani nominate someone like Janice Rogers Brown -- a staunch conservative, beloved by many on the Right and reviled by those on the Left?

"Olson didn't hesitate.

"'Yes,' he said. 'I think he'd be impressed with her whole life story, her talent, her education--the way she pulled herself up from a very modest beginning, the inspiration her life would give to people -- on top of her talent.'

"But would he be willing to wage the fight a Brown nomination would provoke?

"'Absolutely,' Olson said. 'Rudy has never walked away from a fight.'"

Thomas Sowell states that Jan Crawford Greenburg's book Supreme Conflict sends shock waves through the left's misconceptions of Justice Clarence Thomas.