I am learning more about potential Judges to replace Souter and Kim Wardlaw is sounding good to me

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Many detected Wardlaw's liberal bent last year when she wrote for a 6-5 divided en banc panel majority. The decision reversed an earlier ruling and found Arizona middle school officials violated a student's Fourth Amendment rights by strip-searching her on suspicions that she was hiding prescription strength ibuprofen.

That outcome is currently before the Supreme Court, where the conservative justices appeared likely at oral argument last month to side with school administrators. Safford United School District v. Redding, 08-479.

On Friday Wardlaw joined the majority in another en banc decision from the 9th Circuit, this one allowing two women to sue former officials with the Alaska governor's office, despite the state's sovereign immunity defense, for damages related to claims of sexual harassment, gender pay disparity and retaliation.

Wardlaw was born in San Francisco to a Scotch-Irish salesman father and a Mexican-American accountant mother. The judge has said she is reportedly the first Hispanic-American woman appointed to a federal appeals court.

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