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May 18, 2009 7:32 pm US/Mountain

Judge In Colo Approached For Supreme Court Vacancy

  A new Hispanic judge in Denver said Monday she has been approached by White House intermediaries about being considered to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello disclosed the development during an inquiry from CBS4.

Interest in her for the spot on the high court comes at a time when numerous news reports from Washington say President Barrack Obama is likely to pick a woman to fill the seat Justice David Souter is vacating. Latino groups are pushing the president to put the first Hispanic on the high court.

Arguello said she was asked a week ago by people in Washington and in Colorado "who are in direct contact with the White House" if she "would be willing to go through the intense scrutiny" that would occur if Obama nominates her.

"I said 'yes.' I wouldn't have gone this far if I didn't think I could serve my country in this way," Arguello said.

National Public Radio reported Sunday from Washington that "White House officials are gleefully telling reporters the president's list includes people not generally mentioned in the press." The network's veteran legal affairs correspondent listed several people, including Arguello, in that category.

Obama is expected within a week or two to announce his nominee.

In Thatcher, a Las Animas County hamlet where her father worked for a railroad, she and her family lived in a rail car. Arguello, 53, said her career as a practicing lawyer, a tenured law professor, a top deputy to former Colorado Attorney Ken Salazar and a high-ranking counsel for the University of Colorado "has given me a breadth and depth of legal experience that I've been blessed with."

Arguello and Obama are Harvard law school graduates.

Arguello's close association with Salazar, whom the president picked to be secretary of the interior, can only benefit her when the president narrows his choices for the high court.

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