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Photographer: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images The Obama administration, contemplating the possible retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, is focusing on three candidates to succeed him, a White Agric field service engineer vacancies uk official familiar with the deliberations said. The group includes Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Agric field service engineer vacancies uk appellate judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Stevens, who will Agric field service engineer vacancies uk 90 on April 20, told the New York Times in an April 2 interview that he will decide soon whether he will step down. The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy, Stevens told the newspaper. Agric field service engineer vacancies uk hasnt communicated his intentions to the White House one way or another, according the person familiar with the deliberations. President Barack Obama hasnt begun discussing particular candidates with aides, and the list of leading candidates could change in the coming weeks, the person said. Well be prepared if a vacancy arises, but theres no Agric field service engineer vacancies uk on the court, and theres no short list awaiting a potential vacancy, White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail. White House officials expect that any retirement announcement would come after the high courts last argument of its current term, on April 28, the person said. The administration is preparing to move quickly with a nomination, the person said. Kagan, 49, and Wood, 59, interviewed with Obama last year before he appointed Sonia Sotomayor to succeed David Souter on the high court, according to a different Agric field service engineer vacancies uk House official. Garland, 57, was one of nine candidates the White House considered for that vacancy, though he didnt meet with Obama. Kagan is the first woman to serve as solicitor general, the federal governments top Supreme Court advocate. She took that post Agric field service engineer vacancies uk serving as the first female dean of Harvard Law School, her alma mater. Kagan won praise from conservatives and liberals alike for smoothing over the ideological tensions that plagued Harvard Law School before she became dean in 200 Still, her nomination to become solicitor general was divisive. She won confirmation on a 61-31 vote, with some Republicans voicing concern about her lack of courtroom experience and her opposition to on-campus military recruiting at Harvard. Wood, a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago since 1995, has developed a reputation there as an intellectual jurist willing to take on her more conservative colleagues Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Wood is an antitrust expert, serving as deputy assistant attorney general under President Bill Clinton. Garland, a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Circuit, is perhaps the most conservative of the trio, often siding with the government on criminal questions. A Harvard Law School graduate, he worked in the Clinton administrations Justice Department, overseeing the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and the successful prosecution of Timothy McVeigh. For last years vacancy, officials also considered Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan and then-Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court. Martha Minow, who succeeded Kagan as Harvard Law School dean, is also a possibility for the Stevens seat, the first White House official said. Stevens, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975, is the oldest and longest serving of the nine justices. The leader of the courts liberal wing, he supports gay and abortion rights and limits on government support for religion. He is the only justice to say the death penalty is unconstitutional. To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Stohr in Washington at.