It is anticipated that President Joe Biden will soon announce his pick to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.
With that announcement imminent, we are continuing our “Road to the U.S. Supreme Court” series with a spotlight on President Biden’s top three contenders for the nomination.
President Biden has made clear that he intends to nominate the first Black woman to serve on the nine-member Supreme Court. He appears to have narrowed the field to three top contenders: South Carolina District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and California Supreme Court Associate Justice Leondra R. Kruger.
Below is a brief spotlight on the top three contenders and their record on significant employment law jurisprudence.
Judge J. Michelle Childs is a U.S. District Judge for the District of South Carolina with a strong employment law background. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida in 1998 and her law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1991. Judge Childs also completed a master’s degree in Personnel and Employment Relations from the University of South Carolina and an LLM in Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law. If she were nominated and confirmed, Childs would be one of the only two justices on the Court who did not attend Harvard or Yale (the other being Amy Coney Barrett).
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