related to former house speaker paul ryan by marriage. judge jackson 51. the other frontrunner at this point california state supreme court justice leandra krueger. she has served in that position since 2015. a former obama justice department lawyer. argued 12 cases before the supreme court. but she is also well-verse in the inner workings of the supreme court because she too was a clerk will paul steven undergrad and law school. viewed in her job as a moderate often called a swing vote. she is 45 and has young children. another federal judge who recently went through the senate confirmation process is judge candace jackson acomey. she is in her early 40s serves on the seventh circuit of appeals. princeton and yale. only been in current position less than a year. 54-48, same g.o.p. votes. both parents served as judges, she also has worked both in private practice and later as a public defender for several