but eventually that list was winnowed down to david sutter and edith jones. governor sununu's comments in the oral history reveal his nuanced approach to the selection criteria that he considered, including future nominations and a desire on his part to avoid reserving seats for various groups on the high bench. he was of the thought that perhaps justice o'connor would leave soon and he didn't want edith jones to go into that seat for fear of this concept of the women's seat would be developing. he also reports that sutter's lack of a paper trail on federal judicial issues constituted a judicial issues codistinct did it is continuing point in his favor among some members of the president's team as sununu observed we know that work was rejected. that was the environment in which the next supreme court appointment came up for george bush and the president obviously wanted to make a positive impact on the court and yet at the time really did not want to go through a contentious hearing process on his first supreme court nomination. bush eventually met with sutte