A Dome reader sends along one more name for the Fourth Circuit.

Following on the logic of other would-be judges, the legal insider writes that S. Elizabeth Gibson of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law may also be under consideration.

Gibson clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court and worked for a Washington, D.C., law firm before becoming a professor.

She was nominated under President Clinton as well.

Other names previously mentioned: James A. Beaty Jr., Charles Becton, Robert Spearman, Rich Leonard, Jim Wynn, Patricia Timmons-Goodson and Martha Geer.

Two more names have been mentioned for the Fourth Circuit.

A knowledgeable insider tells Dome that James A. Beaty Jr. and Charles Becton might also be under consideration by President-elect Barack Obama for the vacant seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Beaty was nominated in the mid 1990s, but his appointment languished in committee and he currently is a U.S. District Court judge. Becton is another former would-be judge from the Clinton years, and is currently serving as president of the N.C. Bar Association.

Other names previously mentioned: Robert Spearman, Rich Leonard, Jim Wynn, Patricia Timmons-Goodson and Martha Geer.

Several of the picks would allow liberals to have the last laugh over former Sen. Jesse Helms, who blocked Leonard, Wynn and Spearman from judgeships during his long career.