“The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … to fill a vacancy on a powerful DC-based appellate court and one of the [Biden’s] most closely watched judicial nominees,” CNN reported on Tuesday, June 14, 2021 (read story here).
“The vote elevates Jackson from the US District Court for the District of Columbia to the influential US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, which is seen as a breeding ground for Supreme Court justices,” CNN said, adding, “She is widely viewed as a potential Supreme Court pick … [and] Biden pledged during the campaign to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court should a vacancy arise.”
Jackson (bio here) checks all the boxes: Harvard, Harvard Law, editor of Harvard Law Review, and Supreme Court clerk. Given Biden’s promise to put a black woman on the highest court, there doesn’t seem much chance she won’t be shortlisted for a vacancy when one occurs.