The leading contender right now, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was a highly-honored graduate from Harvard Law School (she also attended her undergraduate coursework at Harvard), where (like Barack Obama) she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
While there are several other highly-qualified contenders, including Leondra Kruger, currently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of my state of California, and Michelle Childs, currently on the Federal District Court of South Carolina and a favorite of Rep Jim Clyburn, Brown Jackson has the advantage of already having been confirmed twice, including by the current senate, in which she got 53 votes (Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined all Democrats) to her current seat on the D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, and the fact that she was a clerk for outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer, and is well-known by others on the Court.
The leading contender right now, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was a highly-honored graduate from Harvard Law School (she also attended her undergraduate coursework at Harvard), where (like Barack Obama) she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
While there are several other highly-qualified contenders, including Leondra Kruger, currently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of my state of California, and Michelle Childs, currently on the Federal District Court of South Carolina and a favorite of Rep Jim Clyburn, Brown Jackson has the advantage of already having been confirmed twice, including by the current senate, in which she got 53 votes (Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined all Democrats) to her current seat on the D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, and the fact that she was a clerk for outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer, and is well-known by others on the Court.