Here's what you need to know about the 51-year-old federal appeals court judge, who could become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, according to a source familiar with the process. If confirmed by the Senate, she is likely to hold the position for decades.
Jackson attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. According to the White House, when she told her high school guidance counselor she wanted to go to Harvard, the counselor cautioned her against setting her sights"so high." Jackson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and cum laude from Harvard Law School.She clerked for Breyer on the Supreme Court during the term beginning in October 1999.
Before her appointment to the D.C. Circuit, Jackson served for more than eight years as a judge on the federal district court in the District of Columbia. She was selected for that post by former President Barack Obama in 2012 and introduced at her confirmation hearing by then-Congressman Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who would go on to serve as speaker of the House before retiring in 2018.
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