Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, which means President Joe Biden will get to fill his first seat on the high court — and appoint its first Black woman justice.
Biden has long vowed to make such a historic appointment.
Among the names that have been floated as his potential pick are Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.; Leondra Kruger, a justice on California’s Supreme Court; Michelle Childs, a U.S. appeals court judge in South Carolina; Leslie Abrams Gardner, a U.S. district judge in Georgia; civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill; and even…