Throughout the seven season run of the show, the critical reception towards C.J. remained highly positive and she is now widely regarded as one of the greatest female characters on American television. "The Atlantic" listed C.J. as 1st on their ranking of 144 characters on "The West Wing", writing that "her capability and combination of strength and simple compassion represented the fantasy of the Bartlet White House better than anyone." In their ranking of the best characters from all the television series created by Sorkin, "Vulture", ranks C.J. at #2 and says; "If all the Sorkin women were as classy, self-assured, and legitimately funny (the turkey pardon!) as C.J., we'd never have had the Sorkin woman argument in the first place".