If approved by the Senate to fill Breyer’s seat, Jackson would become the third Black justice and the sixth woman in Supreme Court history.
Three Republicans — Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with all 50 Democrats, NPR reported.
Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in suburban Miami-Dade County, the Miami Herald reported.
As a high school senior in 1988 she won the national oratory title at the National Catholic Forensic League Championships in New Orleans, the second-largest high school debate tournament in the country, the newspaper reported in June 1988.
Jackson graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School and clerked for Breyer during the 1999-2000 Supreme Court term, The New York Times reported.
She has also served as an assistant federal public defender in the District of Columbia and was vice chair of the U.S.
“The primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” Jackson wrote.
Jackson has two daughters and is related by marriage to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Times reported.
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