Jackson, Ketanji Onyika
Brown, American lawyer, jurist, and Supreme Court
Justice, b. Washington, D.C., 1970; grad. Harvard-Radcliff (B.A., cum laude,
1992), Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1996). Jackson served several
clerkships, including for Justice Stephen G. Breyer during Supreme Court's
1999 term. She has been in private practice, at the U.S. Sentencing
Commission (2003–05; vice-chair and commissioner,2010–14), and a
Federal public defender (2005–07). Appointed to the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia (2013–21) by President Barak H.
Obama. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. appointed her to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Ciruit in 2021 and as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court in 2022 after the announced retirement of of Justice
Breyer. She took her seat as the first African-American woman on the court
in June, 2022.
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