The Life and Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Ketanji Brown Jackson ( kə-TAHN-jee; born Ketanji Onyika Brown; September 14, 1970) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. 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. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy created by Breyer's retirement. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.

0:00:00 - intro
0:00:13 - Summary
0:01:18 - Early life and education
0:02:53 - Career
0:03:54 - U.S. Sentencing Commission
0:04:25 - District Court
0:06:15 - Selected rulings
0:10:49 - Court of Appeals
0:12:08 - Legal philosophy
0:13:07 - Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States
0:14:28 - Affiliations
0:15:25 - Personal life
0:15:51 - outro

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