Biden to name Ketanji Brown Jackson, DC appeals court judge, to Supreme Court

President Biden will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., to the Supreme Court, setting up the likely seating of the nation’s first Black woman justice, according to multiple reports.

For Jackson, her nomination culminates a meteoric rise through the federal judiciary following just eight months on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a role she was chosen for after eight years as a federal district court judge in D.C.

Biden’s decision caps off a month of closely held deliberations at the White House over...