SHOW LESSJoe Biden just announced a black woman that he would like to see on the Supreme Court.  So, I did some research on Ketanji Brown Jackson and found some interesting facts that you might want to know.   According to Politico:   President Joe Biden is planning to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, according to two sources familiar with the decision.  Jackson, 51, has been viewed for months as a top contender and fits the bill that Biden and left-leaning activists have sought in the aftermath of Republicans’ successful attempt to pull the judiciary to the right under former President Donald Trump.   Her name has long been floated as a potential Supreme Court justice, particularly after she was tapped to fill the seat left by now-Attorney General Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, generally considered the second-most important court in the U.S.  Education  — Jackson studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 1992. She also received her law degree from Harvard in 1996. (She reportedly once partnered with actor Matt Damon in a drama class.)  — A Washington, D.C., native who grew up in Florida, Jackson graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School, where other notable alumni include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, two-time U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, as well as a number of former Olympians and professional athletes.  Before the bench — Jackson clerked for three federal jurists, including a district court judge in Massachusetts, an appellate judge in the 1st Circuit and Breyer himself.  — Earlier in her legal career, Jackson worked as an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she worked on appellate cases, and served as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission for several years.

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