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Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; / k ə ˈ t ɑː n dʒ i / 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.
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Jackson was born Ketanji Onyika Brown on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Her father, Johnny Brown, was an attorney for public schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Her mother, Ellery, was a school principal in Miami, Florida.Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida. After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard College. She graduated i...
Jackson began working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. She also clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003. On July 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirme...
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to be a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. Her time in this court was known f...
On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his plans to nominate Jackson to be a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace Merrick Garland.On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. On April 28, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Duri...
Nomination and confirmation
Jackson was seen as a possible Supreme Court Justice nominee since Joe Biden was elected president. On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced he would nominate Jackson to the United States Supreme Court, replacing retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. On February 28, 2022, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate. After the Judiciary Committee vote ended in an 11-11 vote tie, her nomination was advanced on April 4 by a 53–47 procedural vote in the Senate to discharge...
Tenure and decisions
In 2023, Jackson wrote the sole dissenting opinion in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters, a case that talked about the power of employers to sue labor unions about the destruction of employer property following a strike. Jackson says she does not have a particular judicial philosophy;instead, she says she has a perspective on legal analysis or a "judicial methodology". Politicoreported that "Jackson is popular with liberal legal activists looking to replace Breyer with a justice willing to...
In January 2022, The New York Times said that Jackson had not yet written many publications showing a legal philosophy. This was mainly because she had joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit only recently, in the summer of 2021. However, The Times said, Jackson's earlier rulings showed a liberal point of view, including her opinions ...
In 1996, Jackson married Patrick G. Jackson. He is the twin brother of former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's brother-in-law. They have two daughters. She is a protestant.
Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.Ketanji Brown Jackson at BallotpediaBrown Jackson Appearances on C-SPANwhitehouse.gov: PortraitOn February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Mar 21, 2022 · Who is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson? Judge Jackson, 51, is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee after being nominated by President Biden to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.
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Jun 30, 2022 · Ketanji Brown Jackson marked a milestone in American representation on Thursday when she was sworn in as the first Black woman in history to sit on the nation's highest court -- officially taking on the title of justice.
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Apr 7, 2022 · Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman voted on to the Supreme Court in its 233-year history. A federal judge, Jackson was nominated to replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer who announced his retirement earlier this year.
