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On February 25, 2022, President Biden nominated DC Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court.

On February 25, 2022, President Biden nominated DC Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court. She would be the first Black woman to ever serve on the Supreme Court, as well as the first former public defender. She has also served as a federal trial judge, a lawyer in private practice, and as a vice chair and commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee began on March 21.