O'Connor out, but who's in?

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

Sandra Day O'Connor, age 75, annouces her retirement from the Supreme Court. (Via Crescat Sententia) A week ago Slate put up a list of likely candidates for the next Court vacancy. Everyone had the Rehnquist vacancy in mind; does the O'Connor retirement make it likely that a woman will get the nomination? Yet among Slate's eight potential nominees there's only one woman—Judge Edith Brown Clement of the 5th Circuit.