Donald Trump Proposed Wisconsin Judge Diane Sykes for the Supreme Court. Who Is She?

MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he likes to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia. On that list is Wisconsin judge Diane Sykes - who had been one of Trump's potential nominees from the beginning.

About Judge Sykes

Diane Sykes is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Former President George W. Bush nominated Sykes to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on November 14, 2003 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2004.

Sykes graduated from Brown Deer High School in 1976 and then earned a B.S. degree in journalism at Northwestern University in 1980 and a J.D. at Marquette University Law School in 1984.

If her last name sounds familiar, she married conservative Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes in 1980. The couple had two children but divorced in 1999.

In a twitter conversation, the outspoken proponent of the #Nevertrump movement had this to say about Diane Sykes:

Donald Trump's full list of candidates:

• Steven Colloton, of Iowa
• Allison Eid, of Colorado
• Raymond Gruender, of Missouri
• Thomas Hardiman, of Pennsylvania
• Raymond Kethledge, of Michigan
• Joan Larsen, of Michigan
• Thomas Lee, of Utah
• William Pryor, of Alabama
• David Stras, of Minnesota
• Diane Sykes, of Wisconsin
• Don Willett, of Texas.

WISN is reporting that Of the eleven names on Trump's list, most are the types that frequently come up on Republican court wish lists. All serve either as judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals (Colloton, Gruender, Hardiman, Kethledge, Pryor and Sykes) or as justices on their respective states' Supreme Courts (Eid, Larsen, Lee, Stras, Willett). Two of the names on the list, Sykes and Pryor, are judges Trump named back in February as possible replacements for Scalia.

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