Harvey succeeded Hillary Rodham (a Carter appointee) in 1982 after the expiration of her term, after being elected by fellow nominees on March 6, 1982.

(The Fed's chairman, Paul A. Volcker, was a Carter appointee.)

"It is a stretch right now with the current rules of war and diplomacy, but I think it is going to come," said Ms. Derian, a Carter appointee.

For Judge Shoob, a Carter appointee who has a reputation for lenient sentences, the motion poses a paradox.

Only 20 percent of Carter appointees were under 45.

The turnaround of the 1980's depended on the stern credit policy of Carter appointees to the Federal Reserve, who painfully squeezed the air out of the inflation balloon.

Robert Kennedy and Patricia Wald (a Carter appointee to the Federal Court of Appeals) have testified that statehood requires a constitutional amendment.

The dissenter was Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Carter appointee.

Judge Newman was a Carter appointee and Judge Pratt was a Reagan appointee.

Reagan appointees are often ranged against Carter appointees on the ideologically polarized appeals court.