The American flag flies in the wind in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 22, 2015.

Former Lawrencian Sri Srinivasan is No. 1 on several national media outlets’ shortlists of President Barack Obama’s possible nominees to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

At least one of those lists includes another former Lawrencian as a possible nominee: Kannon Shanmugam.

Shanmugam, 44, is one of a handful of possible nominees who is not currently a judge, according to a Sunday NPR report. He is partner at the law firm of Williams & Connolly, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and has clerked for conservative judges including Scalia himself, according to NPR.

Kannon Shanmugam

Shanmugam heads the Washington, D.C., law firm’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, according to his company bio. He has argued 17 cases before the Supreme Court, breaking the record for the most Supreme Court arguments by a lawyer in the firm’s history, and has been noted for his confidence and eloquence.

Born in Lawrence, Shanmugam graduated from Lawrence High School in 1989.

His father, Sam Shanmugam, is a distinguished professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences at KU.

Kannon Shanmugam has bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard University and a master’s degree in classics from Oxford University.

In 2004, when a magazine article called him one of the fastest rising “legal stars” in Washington, D.C., Shanmugam told the Journal-World: “I can’t imagine a better place to grow up than Lawrence, Kan. I had a wonderful childhood and a terrific education. I feel I owe a lot to my teachers because without them, I wouldn’t have had the opportunities I’ve had.”

Obama has said he plans to nominate a new justice before the end of his presidency. Scalia, 79, died on Saturday at a Texas hunting resort, apparently of natural causes.

Srinivasan, 48, a 1985 LHS graduate, is currently seated on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He also is the son of a former KU faculty member, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of math.