Justice Lillie in new book

Law.com has New Book 'Shortlisted' Spotlights 9 Women Passed Over for Supreme Court:

The new book ”Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court”—from Renee Knake of the University of Houston Law Center and Hannah Brenner Johnson, vice dean of California Western School of Law in San Diego—”tells the overlooked stories” of those women. The book arose out of the authors’ study of media coverage of the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The National Law Journal spoke with Knake about how that study spurred a book about the nine women and a short-listing phenomenon that exists in the legal and corporate worlds.
How did the media study inspire the short-listed book? We came across an Oct. 14, 1971, article in the New York Times, appearing above the fold, written about Mildred Lillie. It was the first time we were able to uncover such a public airing of a short list. Nixon had six names. What was most interesting was who the heck was Mildred Lillie and how many other women were short-listed before Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated? That was really the first seed planted for this book.