Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Court News:

President Joe Biden has selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to succeed retiring United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Jackson, 51, is an attorney and jurist serving as a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

From 2013 to 2021, she was a district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson also was vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016 she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Fla., Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.

After Breyer announced his retirement in January 2022, President Biden declared his intent to nominate a Black woman as the next justice of the Court. According to news outlets, Jackson was nominated this morning to the Supreme Court.

Source: en.wikipedia.org.