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Ketanji Brown Jackson | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Assumed office June 30, 2022 | |
| Nominated by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Stephen Breyer |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| In office June 17, 2021 – June 29, 2022 | |
| Nominated by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Merrick Garland |
| Succeeded by | Florence Y. Pan |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
| In office March 26, 2013 – June 17, 2021 | |
| Nominated by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Henry H. Kennedy Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Florence Y. Pan |
| Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission | |
| In office February 12, 2010 – December 2014 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Rubén Castillo |
| Succeeded by | L. Felipe Restrepo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ketanji Onyika Brown September 14, 1970 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Spouse |
Patrick Jackson (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Calvin Ross (uncle) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
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Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; /kəˈtɑːndʒi/ kə-TAHN-jee; born September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year.[1][2] She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court.
Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she later assumed on the Supreme Court.[3] From 2010 to 2014, Jackson was the vice chairwoman of the United States Sentencing Commission. In 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. President Joe Biden elevated her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, where she served until 2022. Jackson served as a Harvard Board of Overseers member from 2016 to 2022.
- ^ Jalonick, Mary Clare; Sherman, Mark (April 7, 2022). "Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice". Associated Press. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Hurley, Lawrence; Chung, Andrew; Cowan, Richard (April 7, 2022). "Senate confirms Jackson as first Black woman on U.S. Supreme Court". Reuters. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Bowles, Hopps & Strickland 2022, p. 56.