“…In answering this question, we look to scholarship on the underrepresentation of women in the judiciary, as all-male courts reflect a radical form of underrepresentation. Many of the potential causes of the underrepresentation of women on peak courts involve deeply complicated sociocultural processes, including limited availability pools that follow from gendered appointments to lower courts (Anleu and Mack 2009;Epstein, Knight, and Martin 2003), elite networks that fail to identify qualified candidates (Hennette Vauchez 2015), informal qualifications that exclude women (Gill and Jensen 2020), and culturally structured role perceptions that make a prestigious judicial career simply easier for men to pursue (Feenan 2008;Kim 2009). Just as scholars interested in descriptive representation among members of parliament have focused on the rules for selecting candidates, judicial scholars have focused on appointment processes.…”