By AFRO Staff
After a week of public hearings, lawmakers have announced a date for when they will decide if the country will finally have a Black woman sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sat through hours of questioning day after day the week of March 21, defending her record and discussing hot topics like religion, abortion and race relations in the classroom.
The Committee of the Judiciary officially scheduled the historic vote for April 4 and the hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. inside the Hart Senate Office Building.
Jackson is a Harvard grad and earned a Juris Doctorate from the Harvard School of Law in 1996.
She has been on the U.S. Sentencing Commission since 2010, was confirmed as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2013 and was the assistant federal public defender for Washington, D.C. between 2005 and 2007.
Jackson faced down the senator’s questions roughly 23 years after she first clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in January.
In addition to the vote on Judge Jackson, several other positions around the country will also be considered. The Committee of the Judiciary will take a vote on whether or not to appoint Stephanie Dawkins and Arianna J. Freeman Davis as United States Circuit judges for the Sixth Circuit and Third Circuit Courts, respectively.
Evelyn Padin will be considered for a judgeship out of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and legislators will also take a vote on Vanessa Roberts Avery becoming United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
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