So reports Cheryl Miller of The Recorder. Kruger would be the first African-American Justice on the state Supreme Court since the departure of Justice Janice Rogers Brown (who now serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit).

Here’s a 2010 profile at WSJ’s Law Blog when she joined the SG’s office.

This may have been Kruger’s most controversial argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.