Ketanji Brown Jackson children-Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States of America, Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson was born September 14, 1970.
Jackson was born in Washington D.C in the United States of America to Ellery Brown and Johnny Brown. She has a younger brother named Ketajh Brown.
Florida’s Miami, where Jackson grew up, is home to Miami Palmetto Senior High School. She earned the national oratory championship in the National Catholic Forensic League championships in New Orleans during her senior year.
According to a remark from her high school yearbook, she desired to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment. In 1988, she earned her degree from Miami Palmetto.
Jackson applied to Harvard University to study government after being advised by her guidance counselor to set her sights lower.
She studied acting at Harvard, did improv comedy, and organized demonstrations against a fellow student who flew a Confederate flag from his dorm window.
Jackson received a magna cum laude Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard in 1992. “The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants” was the title of her senior thesis.
Jackson served as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993. Shortly afterward, he enrolled at Harvard Law School. She earned her Juris Doctor in 1996 and served as the Harvard Law Review’s supervising editor.
Ketanji Brown Jackson career
Jackson worked as a law clerk for two judges after graduating from law school: Judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and Judge Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997.
She worked as a private attorney for a year at the Washington, D.C., legal firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now a division of Baker Botts), then from 1999 to 2000 she served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court.
Jackson practiced law from 2000 to 2003, first at the Goodwin Procter law firm from 2000 to 2002 and then alongside Kenneth Feinberg at the firm that is now known as Feinberg & Rozen LLP from 2002 to 2003.
She served as the US Sentencing Commission’s assistant special counsel from 2003 to 2005. Jackson worked as an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., from 2005 to 2007, where she represented clients in matters before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Jackson earned unusual victories against the government that resulted in the government’s lengthy prison sentences being reduced or eliminated, according to a Washington Post analysis of the cases she handled while working as a public defender. She worked as a private practitioner appellate expert at Morrison & from 2007 to 2010.
Jackson is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services.
She now holds positions on the boards of the United States Supreme Court Fellows Commission and Georgetown Day School. She was on the advisory board of Baptist-affiliated Montrose Christian School from 2010 to 2011.
Jackson has presided over multiple mock trials for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia’s Mock Court Program and the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
In 2018, the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University held a mock trial “to determine if Vice President Aaron Burr was guilty of murdering” Alexander Hamilton. Jackson presided over the trial.
Jackson spoke in 2017 at the 35th Edith House Lecture at the University of Georgia School of Law. Jackson took part in a panel discussion about Alexander Hamilton’s legacy in 2018 at the National Constitution Center.
Jackson delivered the Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture at the University of Michigan Law School in 2020, and the University of Chicago Law School’s Black Law Students Association presented the third annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner in his honor.
Jackson was given the Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award in 2022 by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and former Justice Anthony Kennedy, both members of the Awards Council.
Who are Ketanji Brown Jackson’s children?
Ketanji Brown Jackson and her husband, Patrick Graves Jackson have two daughters together. The names of their daughter are Leila Jackson and Talia Jackson.
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