Potential Justices: Diane Wood

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit

Age: 58

Details: Another academic star, seen as fairly liberal, she clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun, worked at a big Washington law firm, became a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and served as deputy chief of antitrust at the Clinton Justice Department before being appointed to the appeals court in 1995.

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