See blogpost from Linda Greenhouse

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/the-n-r-a-at-the-bench/?hp

http://dmjuice.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121230/NEWS01/312300063/1001/NEWS

At long last, it looks like Justice Johnson will be chief.

http://media.nola.com/crime_impact/other/Chief%20Justice%20Decision.pdf

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/10/bernette_johnson_will_be_next.html

The Senate confirmed Stephanie Rose to the Iowa district court, making her the 72nd woman he has nominated to the federal courts. The bad news is that he has nominated fewer judges overall than his predecessors, squandering his short window of opportunity for shaping the federal bench. Contrary to the Huffington Post, Rose was not Iowa’s first.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/obama-women-judges-stephanie-rose_n_1792063.html

President Bush appointed Judge Linda Reade to the federal district court for the Northern District in Iowa in 2002. Stephane Rose was not Iowa’s first federal judge.

http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Linda_Reade

Now Iowa and Idahoe need to get on board

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/1st-woman-named-to-Ind-Supreme-Court-since-1999-3865225.php

Watch and disseminate.

http://m.twincities.com/twincities/db_22782/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=i5GTfwFp

http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/?p=143

See Alliance for Justice’s Eight Page Analysis through May 2012 at http://www.afj.org/judicial-selection/judicial-selection-snapshot.pdf