On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the seat being vacated by Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the Supreme Court. Jackson previously served as a law clerk for Breyer.
Jackson received her undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe College and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was also an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She currently sits as a U.S. circuit judge. Before that, she served as a U.S. district judge and a vice chair and commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as well as a stint ...