Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson as First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice
Jackson, 51, is slated to take the seat of Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in January.
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Today, President Joe Biden announced that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, fulfilling his campaign promise to do so. The The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, and CNN’s Jake Tapper, all reported Jackson was the pick before Biden confirmed it on Twitter just aftera 10am.
Jackson, 51, is slated to take the seat of Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced in January that he would retire if a successor was confirmed by the end of this term. Jackson previously clerked for Justice Breyer.
A former public defender who served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Jackson is currently a judge on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (Justice Brett Kavanaugh was elevated from this same court in 2018.) There had been much speculation about her being the chosen nominee, with The Washington Post reporting on February 22 that three people briefed on Biden’s selection process expected that he would nominate Jackson rather than the other two top candidates, Leondra Kruger and Michelle Childs.