She has very limited litigation experience.Based on her disclosures to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she has never been first chair for a trial and has never argued an appeal. Barrett has never even served as counsel of record in an appellate case. 

President Obama had nominated Myra Selby to fill the same seat. Selby is a former Indiana Supreme Court Justice who spent most of her career at the law firm Ice Miller in Indianapolis. Prior to her nomination, Selby was a highly regarded expert in health care law, earning a spot on the Best Lawyers in America, Health Care law list for seven consecutive years. Senator Joe Donnelly praised Selby’s nomination, saying that she would be a “strong addition to the Seventh Circuit bench” and that she “has been a trailblazer.