As we opined yesterday, professional women are a good bet for Martha Stewart jurors. Her jury was finalized yesterday and consists of 8 women and 4 men.

The jury is weighted toward working women — a pharmacist, a woman who belongs to an organization of art directors, one who travels a lot for business, another whose best friend used to work at Merrill Lynch, and a fifth who works at a law firm.

The men on the jury are for the most part, non-blue collar:

At least three of the four men in the pool also seem savvy about financial matters. One owns shares in Merrill Lynch, for example. Another complained that the Enron scandal hurt the value of his mutual funds (and said that he plays poker with people who work on Wall Street). A third used to work for a brokerage firm as a computer technician.

There are additional dynamics at play here:

But everyone involved in this case has paid careful attention to the atmospherics, and to the sexual politics of putting a powerful woman on trial for a corporate crime. It is unlikely to be an accident that both the judge and the chief prosecutor, Karen Patton Seymour, are women. All of the defense lawyers are men, as is Ms. Stewart's co-defendant and former stockbroker, Peter E. Bacanovic.

We can't help but remember the movie Working Girl with Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith. Sigourneys would be far better than Melanies on the jury. Looks like the defense succeeded.

Of course, jury selection is an art, not a science. It will be interesting to see how the trial unfolds and whether the defense jury consultants earned their fee.

Update: Another description of Martha's jurors:

A minister who counsels married couples, a computer technician and a pharmacist born in Uganda were among the 12 jurors chosen on Monday to decide whether Martha Stewart committed stock fraud....a translator; a woman who recently sued her dry cleaner for damages over an antique dress; an events planner whose husband knows high-profile technology analyst Mary Meeker; and a man who blames the Enron scandal for losses in his mutual fund.

Opening statements are Tuesday --the Government will launch its attack.