What Kentanji Brown Jackson Means For Future Of Black Women On SCOTUS

The pipelines producing the type of person presidents want to pick are still mostly White, like law school admissions and court jobs.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court. While there are few official criteria to become a justice, Newsy found that the unofficial criteria boxed out every other potential nominee — except her.

"There's more qualified people of all colors out there than this very typical path, fairly narrow path that's been carved, right?" said Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University law center.

"People who went to a small number of schools, who clerked for a relatively small elite group of justices or judges who served on, you know, some of the more elite courts of appeals... there are other people out there, but Ketanji Angie Brown Jackson meets all of that criteria and then some," Cashin said.