President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman in US history to serve on the Supreme Court.
Gatekeepers News reports that Biden disclosed this in a statement on his official Twitter page on Friday.
The statement read, “I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court.
“She is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice.”
Jackson was appointed to the federal bench in 2013, and was backed by three Republican senators last year when she was elevated to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, seen as a staging ground for aspiring Supreme Court justices.
Judge Jackson was born 14 September 1970 in Washington, DC and grew up in Miami, Florida.
Her parents attended segregated primary schools, then attended historically black colleges and universities.
Both started their careers as public school teachers and became leaders and administrators in the Miami-Dade Public School System.
