http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422841848Judicial Advisers Line Up Behind Obama, McCain
Influential attorneys on both sides look to reshape federal bench
Pamela A. MacLean
The National Law Journal
July 9, 2008
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Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree is a mentor and adviser to Obama. Also, in 1991, Ogletree represented Anita Hill during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
"I'm certain he will take the lessons of Carter and Clinton to ensure diverse appointments by geography, gender, race and ideology," Ogletree said.
Another Obama backer at Harvard who chips in occasional advice is Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor.
Also on the list is Abner Mikva, a retired judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia who served in Congress and taught law, as well as Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
On the West Coast, Obama's California co-chair for the campaign and personal friend is Jeff Bleich, current State Bar of California president and a partner in Los Angeles-based Munger, Tolles & Olson's San Francisco office.
"His model would not be of the justices serving today, but over the long term, people like Justice Robert Jackson," who signed the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Bleich said.
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