Ketanji Brown Jackson is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the designate Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having received Senate confirmation on April 7, 2022, with 50 Democrats and 3 Republicans voting to confirm, and 47 Republicans voting against confirmation.
Ketanji Brown Jackson began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and prior to her elevation to an appellate court, from 2013 to 2021, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014 and since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
For her personal life, Ketanji Brown Jackson is married to surgeon Patrick Graves Jackson, a Boston Brahmin who is a descendant of Continental Congress delegate Jonathan Jackson, and related to U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and they have two children; Leila and Talia..
Below are pictures of Leila and Talia Jackson:
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Leila and Talia’s mom Ketanji Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy created by Breyer’s retirement.
Ketanji Jackson was confirmed by the Senate, 53–47, on April 7, 2022, to succeed Breyer.