LEONDRA KRUGER

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court last week and will become its first Black female justice.

Americans are starkly divided by race on the importance of President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

He is expected to announce his nominee by the end of February.

Biden President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Washington. A second person familiar said Biden had interviewed at least two candidates for the post. Psaki declined to discuss whether Biden had conducted interviews but insisted the president was “on track” to make the selection despite rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “We believe a Supreme Court nominee ought to be respectfully treated, thoroughly vetted and then voted upon.”___AP writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

President Joe Biden has interviewed at least three candidates for the Supreme Court.

Just being the newest member of the Supreme Court can be a momentous adjustment for a justice.

The whispers and chatter about top contenders for the Supreme Court are growing as President Joe Biden zeroes in on a nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has nominated an appeals court judge who is the daughter of Mexican immigrants as the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court.

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

Leondra Kruger was once a clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and she's often thought of his advice to "always work hard and do your best.”.

Biden reaffirmed his campaign vow to nominate a Black woman to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court and plans to announce his choice this month.

Leondra Kruger, who is on President Biden's Supreme Court shortlist, argued on behalf of the Obama administration in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC

The president has pledged to fill the seat with a historic naming of the court's first Black woman.

The president has pledged to fill the seat with a historic naming of the court's first Black woman.

The president has pledged to fill the seat with a historic naming of the court's first Black woman.

Leondra Kruger Deputy assistant U.S. attorney general Leondra Kruger, stands during her confirmation hearing to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco on Dec. 22, 2014. (S. Todd Rogers/Pool via AP, File)California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger has emerged as one of the contenders for a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court following Justice Stephen Breyer’s announcement that he plans to retire from his post on the nation’s highest court. >> Read more trending newsKruger currently serves as an associate justice on the California Supreme Court. If she’s nominated and confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court, Kruger will be the third Black justice and the sixth woman to serve on the court in its history. Kruger also has experience in private practice and specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation, according to a court biography.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday affirmed his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “long overdue." Sentencing Commission and has been a federal trial court judge since 2013 in the District of Columbia. He made it official on Thursday; the Supreme Court sent out his retirement letter just before the two were to meet. Justice Clarence Thomas is the court’s only Black justice and just the second ever, after Thurgood Marshall. Kagan joined Obama’s other nominee, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina justice, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Supreme Court Biden FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. President Joe Biden has already narrowed the field for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick. The Supreme Court released Breyer's retirement letter Thursday, ahead of the 83-year-old justice's appearance with the president at the White House. Biden will have the first Supreme Court pick of his presidency, and he has pledged to put the first Black woman on the nation's highest court. The Supreme Court has had three women on it for more than a decade, since 2010, when Obama named Justice Elena Kagan to the court to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court.

With Justice Stephen Breyer stepping down, President Biden has his first nomination to the high court. He campaigned on picking a Black woman for the lifetime appointment.

Supreme Court Biden FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. President Joe Biden has already narrowed the field for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick. Other possible candidates for the high court could come from among that group, Biden aides and allies said, especially since almost all of the recent Supreme Court nominees have been federal appeals judges. As a senator, Biden served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, overseeing six Supreme Court confirmation hearings from 1987 to 1995, including Breyer’s. And one person who will be central to Biden’s process is chief of staff Ron Klain, a former Supreme Court law clerk and chief counsel to that committee.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

Behind the scenes, Breyer pushed and prodded his fellow justices for consensus. His decision gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court.