President Joe Biden hit a milestone on Tuesday that hell certainly be touting on the campaign trail: Hes put 150 people into lifetime federal judgeships and of those, 100 are women and 98 are people of color.

Its a solid number of Article III judges to be confirmed by this point in a presidency these judges get lifetime appointments and serve on district courts, appeals courts and the Supreme Court. But Biden is no longer breaking records with his pace of confirmations. By this time in his predecessors presidencies, Donald Trump had confirmed 159 Article III judges, Barack Obama was at 115, George W. Bush was at 167 and Bill Clinton was at 164.

The White House acknowledged that its fallen behind Trumps pace of judicial confirmations, but hailed the benchmark all the same. Senior officials gave credit to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for ushering through so many of Bidens court picks.

Working closely with Leader Schumer and Judiciary Chair Durbin, the Biden-Harris administration has made enormous strides when it comes to the appointment of Article III judges, nearly matching the confirmation pace of the Trump-Pence administration despite inheriting far fewer judicial vacancies, reads a Tuesday memo released by White House counsel Ed Siskel, Office of Legislative Affairs Director Shuwanza Goff and Office of Public Engagement Director Stephen Benjamin.

Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor and expert on federal judicial nominations, noted that Biden has four appeals court nominees awaiting Senate confirmation votes, one of which will come next week and the others soon after. Thats in addition to the Senate voting on more district court nominees this week.

Biden is likely to equal or surpass Trump by his terms end, Tobias speculated. Of course, if the GOP shuts down the government, that would stall Bidens confirmation work.