What you need to know about Amy Coney Barrett

Published September 27, 2020 10:30am ET



Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, has been nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Trump. She is the third candidate and the first woman to be nominated to the highest court in the land under this president.

If confirmed, Judge Barrett would become just the 5th woman to be on the Supreme Court, following Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

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