Brett M. Kavanaugh was a high school athlete at Georgetown Preparatory School. He played defensive back on the football team and was captain of the basketball team his senior year.



But on Monday he may have handed the school one of its biggest victories, with his selection by President Trump to be the next United States Supreme Court justice.

With the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, 53, now a federal appeals court judge, Georgetown Prep, an elite Jesuit high school just outside Washington, D.C., could have the distinction of having two alumni on the nation’s highest court.

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, 50, who was two years behind Judge Kavanaugh at the school, was Mr. Trump’s first pick for the Supreme Court and took the bench last year. Judge Kavanaugh will join him if he is confirmed by the Senate.