If confirmed, Ketanji Brown Jackson would make history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
When LaTosha Brown, a founder of Black Voters Matter, learned that President Joe Biden had selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court, she had more of an emotional reaction than she thought she would.
If confirmed, Jackson would make history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
“It speaks to a new era we’re entering,” Brown said Friday morning shortly after Biden’s announcement. “There’s a woman with locs [dreadlocks] who’s going to be on the Supreme Court.”
If confirmed by the Senate, Jackson would replace Justice Stephen Breyer, the eldest of the court’s members who announced his retirement last month after more than 27 years on the court.
Brown said it was not lost on her that Black women, who have been a central voice of protecting and defending democracy, had “never even been considered in a formal nominee way.”
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