In 1989, when Jackson was a freshman at Harvard, her uncle Thomas Brown Jr. Her father, Johnny Brown, further attended the University of Miami School of Law and ultimately became the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Her parents were both graduates of historically Black colleges and universities. Jackson was born Ketanji Onyika Brown on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C. She became the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court upon her swearing in. Jackson succeeded Justice Breyer upon his retirement from the court on June 30, 2022. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014.
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Circuit, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. īorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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She was previously a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2021 to 2022. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 7, 2022, and sworn into office on June 30. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022. Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson ( / k ə ˈ t ɑː n dʒ i/ kə- TAHN-jee, born September 14, 1970) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the U.S.