http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/ketanji-brown-jackson-fb-s450.jpgJackson, a former Breyer clerk, is expected to round out the court’s liberal wing.

WASHINGTON, DC - President Biden is nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., to the Supreme Court, setting up the likely seating of the nation’s first Black woman justice.

For Jackson, her nomination culminates a meteoric rise through the federal judiciary following just eight months on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a role she was chosen for after eight years as a federal district court judge in D.C.

Biden’s decision caps off a month of closely held deliberations at the White House over a replacement for Justice Stephen Breyer, who is due to retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s current term this summer.

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