In today's Washington Post, an article by Robert Barnes discusses the lack of diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court. Although race, ethnicity, and sex are the normal measures of diversity, the article points out some other important aspects: the current members are all from private universities, eight went to Harvard or Yale for law school, and all were appellate judges.
The future seems to be a court filled with justices who look very different from each other but all attended the same schools and had the same experience.
UPDATE: Sonia Sotomayor, who was just nominated, follows the same pattern, for she went to Princeton as an undergraduate, then attended Yale Law School, and served as appellate judge in New York.
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