As a new faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School in 1981, Diane Wood had two children, both under age 2.

Balancing motherly duties with workplace commitments, Wood sometimes tapped one of her colleagues, Antonin Scalia, for help. As the father of nine, he had a steady stream of clutch babysitters, including his son Eugene, now a 52-year-old partner at a Washington, D.C., law firm.

“When my child-care arrangements fell apart, I would bring them to the law school and Gene would keep an eye on them and play with them and take them out and throw a ball around the backyard,” Wood said. “I knew the family quite well.”

Thirty five years later, Wood is rumored to be a possible candidate to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by Scalia, who died in February at a Texas hunting lodge.

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