Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as first African-American woman on US Supreme Court
India Today
Joe Biden is likely to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African-American woman to the US Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.
In Jackson, Biden delivered on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.
He has chosen an attorney who would be the high court's first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices.
Jackson would be the current court's second Black justice — Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, is the other — and just the third in history.
The news was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it before the president's official announcement later Friday.
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