President Biden to Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

President Joe Biden is expected to announce his Supreme Court nomination.

The President of the United States will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, via NBC News.

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If she is confirmed, she would become the first Black woman to serve on the court, as well as the second-youngest justice on the current court, and the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience as a defense lawyer.

Judge Jackson grew up in Miami, and her mother was a school administrator and her father was a lawyer for the Miami-Dade school board. She graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School. She was also a Supreme Court law clerk for Justice Breyer, who once described her as “great, brilliant, decent, with a mix of common sense and thoughtfulness.”

She met her husband Patrick at Harvard. He is a surgeon at a Washington hospital, and they have two daughters.

For more details on her career and the politicians who endorse her, head to NBC News.