Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court justice and jurist
Ketanji Brown Jackson sits on the US Supreme Court as an associate justice, and she was the first Black woman to serve there.
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American Born 1970 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Ketanji Brown Jackson
Born in Washington, D.C., Ketanji Brown Jackson spent her youth in Miami, Florida. She studied at Harvard University for both her undergraduate and law degrees, and edited the Harvard Law Review. She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she later took on the Supreme Court. Before joining the Supreme Court, she worked in private practice, as an assistant federal public defender, and as a vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. She served as a federal district judge in Washington, D.C. In 2021 she moved up to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit. President Joe Biden nominated her to the Supreme Court in 2022, and she is the first former federal public defender to sit on it. Lovely One is her book in our catalog.