Here's some names that have been tossed around over the last four years as possible USSC nominees under PresBush.
Judge J. Michael Luttig (4th Circuit)
Judge Emilio M. Garza (5th Circuit)
Miguel Estrada (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP)
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez
Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III (4th Circuit)
Judge Edith Jones (5th Circuit)
Judge Frank Easterbrook (7th Circuit)
Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (3rd Circuit)
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)
Justice Janice Brown (Calif. Supreme Ct.)
Judge Alex Kozinski (9th Circuit)
Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)
Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson
Former US-AG John Ashcroft
Judge Diarmiud O'Scannlain (9th Circuit)
Judge Paul Niemeyer (4th Circuit)
Judge Richard Posner (7th Circuit)
Judge Jerry E. Smith (5th Circuit)
Judge A. Raymond Randolph (D.C. Circuit)
Professor Lillian Riemer BeVier (Univ. of Va.)
John G. Roberts, Jr. (Hogan & Hartson, LLP)
Judge Karen Williams (4th Circuit)
Former Senator John C. Danforth (R-Missouri)
Judge Pasco Bowman (8th Cir.)
Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse (2d Cir.)
ping for you..NRO Corner reporting that Ted Olsen under serious consideration for CJ per CNN..for what it's worth.