Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the second day of her confirmation hearing to become Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
We welcome the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court. She will be the third African American and the fifth woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. She has served as a United States District Judge, on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as vice-chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
The child of a schoolteacher mother and lawyer father, she grew up in Miami public schools, graduated from Harvard College, then Harvard Law School, both with honors. Three clerkships followed, the last with Justice Stephen Breyer – to whose chair she will succeed. As a trial court and circuit judge, her rulings drew little attention for anything other than their competence when she was confirmed for the court of appeals. But the seas grew foul when she was nominated for the high court.
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