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Saturday, May 15, 2010

An Equally Great Choice for Supreme Court


CRYSTAL NIX HINES

If she wanted the job.
Ms. Nix Hines is a Princeton grad, Harvard Law School graduate who also was on law review. She clerked for Sandra Day O'Connor and Thurgood Marshall. Her father was a noted civil rights attorney who pioneered school desegregation.
She worked as under or deputy Secretary for Human Rights under Clinton's first term then went to private practice to work for former Secretary of State Warren Christopher's firm O'Melveney and Myers, then moved to Los Angeles where she is now Of Counsel to a large international firm.
Most distinguishing is her writing career-she was a journalist sort at Princeton and wrote for the New York Times prior to her law career which she re-enlivened later as a writer/producer for various TV shows with a legal/political bent such as The Practice, Alias and later Commander in Chief.
Crystal is married with a few adorable kiddies, to a man who studied once at Fuller Theological Seminary and comes from a long line of Pastors (his mother and father were/are both protestant pastors.)
Her uncle sat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

She is African American, married with kids, just a few years younger than Kagan, protestant evangelical, and brilliant.

She must not have wanted the job. Or doesn't want to move back with her family to DC.
Do they let you telecommute? Like from France?

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