15 Facts About Leondra Kruger

Leondra Reid Kruger was born on July 28,1976 and is an American judge who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California.

Leondra Kruger served as acting Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States from 2010 to 2011, and worked in the Office of Legal Counsel.

Leondra Kruger was confirmed, and was sworn in on January 5,2015.

Leondra Kruger was considered a potential nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States, following the announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer's intention to retire in 2022.

Leondra Kruger's mother, Audrey Reid, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, and her late father, Leon Kruger, was an American Jew whose parents had immigrated to the US from Europe.

Leondra Kruger attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California, and was a National Merit Scholar.

Leondra Kruger then attended Yale Law School, graduating in 2001 with a Juris Doctor.

Leondra Kruger was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, the first Black woman ever to hold the position.

Leondra Kruger then clerked for Judge David Tatel on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003 and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court from 2003 to 2004.

Leondra Kruger then returned to private practice for two years at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr in Washington, DC Leondra Kruger was a visiting assistant professor in 2007 at the University of Chicago Law School.

From 2007 to 2013, Leondra Kruger was an assistant to the United States Solicitor General, and the acting principal deputy solicitor general.

Leondra Kruger argued 12 cases before the US Supreme Court, and worked on a case defending the Affordable Care Act, National Federation of Independent Businesses v Sebelius.

In 2013, Leondra Kruger became a deputy assistant attorney general at the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.

Leondra Kruger was sworn in on January 5,2015, and became the court's second African-American woman justice, following Janice Rogers Brown.

In November 2015, Kruger delivered the annual Bernard E Witkin lecture before the Los Angeles County Bar Association.