Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving since June 30, 2022. She is the first female African American justice and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court, and is the sixth female justice.

Jackson was born on Sept. 14, 1970, in Washington, DC, and grew up in the Miami, Florida area. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in government, magna cum laude, in 1992 and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1996. She served as the supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review from 1995-1996.

Prior to her confirmation to the Supreme Court, Jackson was a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2021-2022) and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2013-2021). Other previous legal experience includes serving as assistant special counsel, vice chair and commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission; as a federal public defender; as a private practice lawyer; and as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary, including for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

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