WASHINGTON--President Obama met with Chicago based federal appeals court judge Diane Wood, mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee, scooped Bloomberg News reporters Ed Chen and Greg Stohr.

Bloomberg: "Wood, a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, was in Washington today attending a conference on judicial independence at Georgetown University's law school. She told a reporter during a break that she was in Washington for that session and declined to say whether she had been to the White House."