Then to hell with her and any other totally-obscure nominee.
Are you in the habit of hiring people to work for you, in a job they cannot be fired from, if you know absolutely nothing about how they will perform on the job?
You'd be an idiot to hire someone on those terms, wouldn't you?
Let's think about your question. You open up the application file for someone you know nothing about and find a letter of recommendation from the President of the United States who speaks with glowing praise of a ten year association with the applicant. You decide to call some of the applicants co-workers. They speak of glowing praise of the applicant. You also find out that your applicant is a woman of many firsts: In 1972, she became the first woman hired at Dallas's Locke Purnell Rain Harrell. In March 1996, her colleagues elected her the first female President of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell, at that time a firm of about 200 lawyers. She was the first woman to lead a Texas firm of that size. In 1985, she was selected as the first woman to become President of the Dallas Bar Association. In 1992, she became the first woman elected President of the State Bar of Texas. She has received countless awards recognizing her distinguished career, including 1997 Woman of the Year, the 1996 Louise Raggio Award, the 1993 Sarah T. Hughes Award, and the 1992 Dallas Bar Association's Justinian Award for Community Service. In 2005 she received the Sandra Day O'Connor award. Do I need to go on, because there is much much more good things about this woman.
You would be stuck on stupid if you did not hire the applicant on the spot!