President George W. Bush nominated Sykes to a seat on the Seventh Circuit. She was approved & Confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_S._Sykes
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=3074&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na
I posted this on the SCOTUS thread:
I was curious who they clerked for:
Thomas:
Allison Hartwell Eid of Colorado
Thomas R. Lee of Utah - 1994
David Stras of Minnesota - 2002
Kennedy:
Raymond Kethledge of Michigan - 1997
Scalia:
Joan Larsen of Michigan - 1994
Reinquist:
Steven Colloton of Iowa - 1989
Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1987 to 1988:
William Pryor
Judge Terence T. Evans at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin:
Diane Sykes of Wisconsin
Judge Jerre Stockton Williams at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:
Don Willett of Texas
None:
Raymond Gruender of Missouri
Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania
As an aside:
Laura Ingraham - Thomas 1992
Ted Cruz - Renquist 1996