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Mr. President, you were nominated and elected for such and opportunity as this. Put away the Rove's political chess board strategy for a moment and make us proud. Here is your nominee:

She was born Janice Olivia Allen in Greenville, Ala., in 1949, five years before the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. After returning from service in World War II, her father grew cotton, corn and peanuts on a 158-acre (0.6 km²) plot he leased about 25 miles (40 km) away from Greenville, before reenlisting in the military, said Havard Richburg, a friend of the family. Her parents separated, and she was raised primarily by her grandmother, Beulah Allen, until her teenage years, when her mother, a nurse, took her to Sacramento, California. (Her mother remarried, adding the name Rogers.) Her family was involved in the voting rights movement in Alabama and became liberal Democrats. She was inspired to become a lawyer by the career of Fred D. Gray, the Alabama civil rights lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Brown has said she initially shared her family's views, but over the years became more conservative in her thinking. In California, she made her way through Sacramento State University in part by working at the Department of Corrections, where she met her first husband, Alan Brown, an administrator there. Soon after the birth of their son, Mr. Brown died of cancer, leaving her to finish college and then law school at the University of California, Los Angeles as a single working mother. She earned her B.A. from CSU Sacramento in 1974 and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977. In addition, she received a LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004.

Time to rally and galvanize support around Brown.