Could Earth be getting its first female Green Lantern?

DC Comics is shaking up the Green Lantern Corps by possibly adding the first female Green Lantern from Earth in Green Lantern history!

This fall there will be a big event titled "Forever Evil" that is being billed as "the first universe-wide event of the New 52".  To promote this big event DC has released the following image of a female Green Lantern.

Granted this image could be a female from any planet but if you tie this promotional teaser with a panel from Green Lantern #20 (seen below) from when writer Geoff Johns finished his run on Green Lantern it makes it much more likely. We also learn that the female's name could be Jessica Cruz.

 

There are of course still questions surrounding this news but it is exciting all the same! Why is this Jessica Cruz so controversial? Or is the matter in which she gets the ring that is controversial?
Are you excited for Earth's first female Green Lantern?

Source: DC Women Kicking Ass