Ketanji Brown Jackson Biography
Ketanji Brown Jackson a native of Washington DC, is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently serving as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.
Ketanji has been nominated to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and is waiting for Senate Confirmation. She was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022.
This will make her the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. In addition, she would be the first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Age
Ketanji was born in Washington DC on September 14, 1970. She is 51 years old as of 2021.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Height
Jackson stands at an estimated height of 5 feet 1 inch. She is of average weight, has black and dark brown eyes.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Family
Brown was born Ketanji Onyika Brown in Washington DC and raised in the Miami area. She was born to her parents Johnny Brown and Ellery Brown. Her father was a lawyer then later served as the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board. Her mother was school principal at the New World School of the Arts. Both her parents graduated from historically Black colleges and universities.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Husband
Brown has been married to her husband Patrick Graves Jackson for 26 years since 1996. Patrick Graves is a surgeon and a Boston Brahmin. He is the descendant of Jonathan Jackson a Continental Congress delegate. The married couple is blessed with two daughters; Leila and Talia.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Children
Brown and her husband have two children; daughters Leila Brown and Talia Brown.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Education
Brown went to Miami Palmetto Senior High School where she graduated in 1988. She later enrolled at Harvard University where she studied government. She graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1992. Ketanji went to Harvard Law School where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1996, she graduated with a Juris Doctor cum laude.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court
Jackson has been nominated to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and is waiting for Senate Confirmation. She was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022.
This will make her the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. In addition, she would be the first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender. Her nomination comes after Breyer’s retirement.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Career
Ketanji started her career serving as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She then served in the same position for Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In 1999 she became a law clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ketanji has worked in private legal practice at both Boston-based law firm Goodwin Procter and Feinberg & Rozen LLP. She later became an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.
Ketanji was nominated by Barack Obama as vice-chair of the United States Sentencing Commission on July 23, 2009. On February 11, 2010, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent.
Barack Obama nominated Ketanji as the judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 20, 2012. On March 22, 2013, she was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote. In May 2013, she was sworn in by Justice Breyer.
On April 19, 2021, President Joe Bidden nominated Jackson to serve as a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 53–44 vote. On June 17, 2021, she received her judicial commission.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Rulings
In 2013 in the American Meat Institute v. U.S. Department of Agriculture Brown rejected the meat packing industry’s request which required a preliminary injunction to block a U.S. Department of Agriculture rule requiring them to identify animals’ country of origin.
In 2014, in Depomed v. Department of Health and Human Services, she made a ruling that the Food and Drug Administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act. This is after it failed to grant pharmaceutical company Depomed market exclusivity for its orphan drug, Gralise.
In 2015, in Pierce v. District of Columbia Brown made a ruling that the D.C. Department of Corrections had violated the rights of a deaf inmate under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The jail officials failed to provide the inmate with reasonable accommodations.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Net Worth
Brown has an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2022.