US President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the the country’s highest court. The 51-year-old invoked her faith, family, professional mentors, and the inspiration of the nation’s first Black woman federal judge when she accepted her own nomination.

Biden praised her “exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and an unwavering dedication to the rule of law”.

Starting Monday, Jackson will field questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in highly anticipated public hearings. She will be asked questions by the members of the panel for two full days. Each member of the committee will have 30 minutes to question Jackson on Tuesday and another 20 minutes on Wednesday. However, it is not necessary that they use all the time allotted to them.

If confirmed, Jackson would make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.

Here are 5 things to know about Jackson, who is writing a “new page” in the history of the nation.

1. Jackson’s husband, Patrick Graves Jackson, is a gastrointestinal surgeon whom she met while they were both attending Harvard. According to The Miami Herald, Jackson is currently a general surgeon at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. “Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to England before the Mayflower”, she said in 2017 of her husband.

2. The Harvard Law School graduate has two daughters, Talia, 21, and Leila, 17, with her husband Patrick. In a 2017 speech, Jackson revealed that the couple’s daughter, Leila, wrote President Barack Obama a letter urging him to name her mother to the US Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia died. 

3. In her nomination speech, Jackson revealed that she has one younger brother, who served in the army in Iraq. He is named Ketajh Brown, and he “served with the Baltimore Police Department from October 2001 through May 2008.” The Baltimore Sun reported that he is now a corporate attorney in Chicago.

4. Jackson was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year. She served on the federal district court in DC for nine years.

5. During a drama course she took one semester at Harvard, her assigned partner was Matt Damon. “Although I was pretty good, I doubt he’d remember me now,” Jackson said.