By: Alusine Rehme Wilson
Former vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, Ketanji Brown Jackson has made history after receiving backing from Senates who unanimously voted her to the nine-member bench becoming the first black woman to serve in the top court.
The Miami Palmetto Senior High School and Harvard Law School graduate that was nominated by the President of the United States of America Joe Biden on February 25 this year was confirmed by Senates after securing a total of 53 votes as opposed to 43 to enhancing President Biden’s campaign promise to appoints a black woman to the top court.
As it happened, she now leads as the first black female justice in the nation’s 233-year history having received a 100% vote from Democrats, plus extra three votes from three Republicans including to further confirm her appointment to her new job.
Upon the retirement of Stephen Breyer, in June this year, Johnson will be taking over her fellow liberal judge for Women Justice whom she has once clerked.
And the 51-year-old is tipped to spend decades in the lifetime appointment when she takes over in the next two months from her former employer Stephen Breyer.
Many believe Johnson will not swing the ideological balance of the current court which has a 6-3 conservative majority.
For Johnson, who’s an American Attorney and Jurist who has served the federal judge on the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021, at the same time being an associate justice to the supreme court of the United States of America upon her confirmation by the US Senates remains self-assured of her methodology when it comes to deciding cases but stressed it’s not an overarching philosophy and agrees somehow with the Republican senators to going by the text of the constitution as it was intended by its founders.
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