If President Joe Biden gets his way, the nation’s most powerful prosecutor’s office will be led by a Black man for the first time in history.

On Tuesday, Biden nominated Damian Williams to take charge of the the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan, the Bronx, and Westchester County. Williams has worked in the office for a decade. He currently leads a securities fraud unit and he helped secure the conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly, who is currently serving a seven-year sentence for corruption.

Williams, the Brooklyn-born son of Jamaican immigrants, is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. He clerked for Merrick Garland when the current U.S. Attorney General was a judge. He was also a clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

His nomination was first promoted by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat.

Bloomberg explains why the office Williams may soon lead is so storied:

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is well-known for its white-collar and Wall Street prosecutions, and previous officeholders like Preet Bharara, Rudy Giuliani and James Comey built national reputations with insider-trading cases against figures like Michael Milken, Raj Rajaratnam and Martha Stewart. It is often referred to as the “Sovereign District of New York,” a play on its official name, in a reference to the office’s independence from the Justice Department in Washington.

The Southern District is currently investigating Giuliani for his dealings with Ukraine, which may have violated lobbying laws.

NPR reports on several other U.S. Attorney picks announced by the Biden administration earlier this week:

Biden also nominated Carla Freedman to lead the Office of the Northern District of New York and Breon S. Peace to head the Eastern District of New York.

The president picked Jessica D. Aber as the U.S. attorney nominee for the Eastern District of Virginia,William J. Ihlenfeld II to the Northern District of West Virginia, Christopher Kavanaugh to the Western District of Virginia and William Thompson to the Southern District of West Virginia.

Darcie McElwee was nominated to lead the District of Maine.

The White House said each nominee was “chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, their experience and credentials in this field, their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all, and their commitment to the independence of the Department of Justice.”

Peace, the Eastern District nominee, is also Black. So is Alvin Bragg, whose win in the Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney all but guarantees that he’ll assume the role next year. By 2022, three of the top law-enforcement jobs in New York City will likely be held by African Americans.