CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - President Barak Obama plans to nominate Scalia's replacement despite what Senate Republicans and GOP presidential candidates are saying.

One name court analysts are suggesting is Jane Kelly, a former assistant U.S. attorney who's currently a federal appeals court judge.

Kelly joins a list of others experts are watching. Sri Srinivasan, who is a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Merrick Garland, a chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, who's on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kelly was born and raised in Greencastle, Indiana. From there she went to Duke for her BA and graduated with distinction from Harvard Law in '91, along with President Obama.