(born 1949) – former chief judge Priscilla R. Owen (born 1954) Edward C. Prado (born 1947) Jerry Edwin Smith (born 1946) Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Alice M. Batchelder (born 1944) – former chief judge Danny Julian Boggs (born 1944) – former chief judge Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit Frank Easterbrook (born 1948) – former chief judge Diane S. Sykes (born 1957) Ann Claire Williams (born 1949) Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Consuelo Callahan (born 1950) Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit Michael W. McConnell (born 1955) Deanell Reece Tacha (born 1946) – former chief judge Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit William H. Pryor Jr. (born 1962) Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Janice Rogers Brown (born 1949) Brett Kavanaugh (born 1965) (subsequently nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed in 2018) John Roberts (born 1955) (nominated and confirmed) United States District Courts Cecilia Altonaga (born 1962) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Ricardo Hinojosa (born 1950) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Loretta Preska (born 1949) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York State Supreme Courts (current and former) Raoul G. Cantero III (born 1960) – former Florida Supreme Court justice Maura D. Corrigan (born 1948) – former Michigan Supreme Court justice Rebecca Love Kourlis (born 1952) – former Colorado Supreme Court justice United States Senators John Cornyn (born 1952) – Republican senator from Texas, former Texas Supreme Court justice Mike Crapo (born 1951) – Republican senator from Idaho Mike DeWine (born 1947) – Republican senator from Ohio Orrin Hatch (1934–2022) – Republican senator from Utah Jon Kyl (born 1942) – Republican senator from Arizona Mel Martinez (born 1946) – Republican senator from Florida Executive Branch officials Christopher Cox (born 1952) – former SEC chairman, former U.S. representative from California Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement (born 1966) – 43rd solicitor general Miguel A. Estrada (born 1961) – withdrawn nominee for the D.C. Circuit, former assistant solicitor general Peter D. Keisler (born 1960) – former nominee for the D.C. Circuit, former assistant attorney general Maureen E. Mahoney (born 1955) – former deputy solicitor general Theodore Olson (born 1940) – former solicitor general Other backgrounds Viet Dinh (born 1968) – Georgetown University Law Center professor, former assistant attorney general Mary Ann Glendon (born 1938) – former U.S.