No one gives a damn that she's a woman. She was way down below many other good possibilities of both sexes.
And no one gives a damn where she went to law school. It's what she's done, or rather hasn't done, since then.
"Flying through space ain't like dusting crops, boy" -- and there's more to being on the Supreme Court than being loyal to GWB, and Harriet Miers is not the Luke Skywalker of lawyers.
You may not, but the beltway egos do. Read what they have said. The snobbery is obvious.