US federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to become a Supreme Court justice.

This is reported by the American broadcaster CNN, citing sources in the White House.

Accordingly, the American President decided for the 51-year-old African American to succeed liberal judge Stephen Breyer.

Breyer had announced his departure from the court at the end of the current session in July.

Biden is using the opportunity to reaffirm his promise from the 2020 election campaign to fill the vacancy with a black judge.

"It's about time," said the President. The composition will have no effect on the orientation of the court. The liberal Brown Jackson replaces one liberal, leaving three liberal judges and six conservatives.

It wasn't until 1967 that the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

Until 1981, American women had to wait for the first woman in supreme court robes, Sandra Day O'Connor.

And to date, black women make up only about two percent of all lawyers, according to analysis by the American Bar Association, the professional organization for lawyers.

In his first year in office, Biden nominated eight African American women judges, more than all the appellate and higher federal courts in the United States have served combined.

From the point of view of analysts at the Supreme Court, the label "historic" is therefore appropriate.