Moving from the shortlist to the nominee on the United States Supreme Court is impacted by many things. It is well established that factors such as Ivy League law school attendance, age, race, gender and presidents viewing nominations as a representation of their policy preferences. This study aims to further analyze how institution of legal education, race and gender impacts the likelihood that someone who is on the shortlist to becoming the actual nominee. In this context, shortlist is referring to a list of selected candidates from which a final choice is made. Actual nominee refers to the candidate that is selected off of the shortlist to be confirmed in front of the Senate. To test the hypotheses that top 3 law school, race, and gender lead to being moved from shortlist to nominee, cases from President Hoover to President Trump were compiled into a Harvard dataset. The results of a logistic regression showed one hypothesis to be true, with the other two not being supported. These results suggest that attending a top three law school, Harvard, Yale or Columbia, is the most important factor in the likelihood of becoming a Supreme Court Justic
