Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates

Following his victory in the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden took office as president on January 20, 2021.

During the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, Biden pledged to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court,[1][2][3] although unlike his opponent, Donald Trump, Biden did not release a specific list of potential nominees during the 2020 general election campaign.

[4] In February 2022, Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who retired at the end of the court's 2022 term.

[8] On January 27, Biden reiterated his intention to keep his campaign promise to nominate a Black woman.

[9] On February 22, it was reported that Biden had met with his top three contenders, Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs and Leondra Kruger.