DAY 4 – The U.S. Senate is poised to confirm a second woman to the U.S. Supreme Court when hearings are completed that began, Monday, July 13th.  Currently only one woman out of nine members serve on the Court and there have been 111 total members with just two being women.  109 out of the 111 Supreme Court members have been men.  President Obama’s nominee, Sonia Sotomayor would become the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Watch the coverage live on C-Span.  ElectWomen Magazine will report daily on these important hearings.  

Live coverage:  http://www.c-span.org/Supreme-Court-Sotomayor-Senate-Confirmation-Hearings.aspx

FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE:

Dianne Feinstein
D-California
Biography

Amy Klobuchar
D-Minnesota
Biography

WITNESS LIST:

Chairman Patrick Leahy and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions have announced the witness list for the confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Association Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  The confirmation hearing that began on July 13 at 10:00 a.m.  The lists of witnesses invited by the Majority and Minority of the Judiciary Committee follow.  For more information about the Supreme Court, the Sotomayor nomination, and details about how to attend the hearing, click here.

American Bar Association Witnesses

Kim Askew, Chair of the Standing Committee
Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer

Majority Witnesses

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York County, New York
Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York Sixteenth District
Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Minority Witnesses

Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
Sandy Froman, Esq., former President, National Rifle Association of America
Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
Tim Jefires, Founder, P7 Enterprises
Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Saftey and Health)
David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life