Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
A: Brown is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a United
States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit since 2021.
She is an associate justice-designate of what?
A: The Supreme Court of the United States.
Jackson received Senate confirmation on what date?
A: April 7, 2022.
When was Ketanji born?
A: On September 14, 1970.
Where was she born?
A: In Washington, D.C.
Her parents were both graduates of what?
A: Historically black colleges and universities.
Her father, Johnny Brown, was a lawyer who ultimately
became what?
A: The chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board.
He is a graduate of what university?
A: The University of Miami School of Law.
Her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at what
school?
A: New World School of the Arts.
While she was in college, Jackson's uncle Thomas Brown
Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for what?
A: A nonviolent cocaine conviction.
Years later, Jackson persuaded a law firm to take his
case pro bono, and President Barack Obama eventually did what?
A: Commuted his sentence.
Another uncle, Calvin Ross, served as what?
A: Miami's police chief.
Where did Jackson grow up?
A: Jackson grew up in the Miami, Florida area.
What high school did she graduate from?
A: Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988.
In her senior year, what did she win?
A: The national oratory title at the National Catholic Forensic League
championships in New Orleans.
She is quoted in her high school yearbook saying what?
A: That she "wanted to go into law and eventually have a judicial
appointment."
Jackson studied government at Harvard University,
having applied despite what?
A: Her high school guidance counselor's advice to set her sights lower.
During college, she performed improv comedy and took
classes in what?
A: Drama.
Jackson graduated from Harvard in 1992 with an A.B.
having written a senior thesis entitled what?
A: "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of
Criminal Defendants".
Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for
what magazine from 1992 to 1993?
A: Time.
While at Harvard Law School, she was a supervising
editor of what?
A: The Harvard Law Review.
When did she graduate?
A: In 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.
After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to
whom?
A: Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997.
Next, she clerked to judge Bruce M. Selya of the United
States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from when to when?
A: 1997 to 1998.
She spent a year in private practice at what
Washington, D.C. law firm?
A: Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts).
She then clerked for whom?
A: Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States from
1999 to 2000.
On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to
become what?
A: Vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by what on February
11, 2010?
A: Unanimous consent.
Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until when?
A: 2014.
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve
as a judge for what?
A: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
She was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation
hearing by whom?
A: Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics
may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for
her integrity, it is unequivocal.
She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on
what date?
A: March 22, 2013.
During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote
multiple decisions adverse to the positions of what?
A: The Trump administration.
In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House
counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote what?
A: "presidents are not kings".
On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his
intent to nominate Jackson to serve as a United States circuit judge for
what?
A: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Biden nominated Jackson to the seat vacated by whom?
A: Judge Merrick Garland, who stepped down to become attorney general.
On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed
Jackson in with a vote of what?
A: 53–44.
In early 2016, the Obama administration officials
vetted Jackson as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the
vacancy left by the death of whom?
A: Antonin Scalia.
On February 25, 2022, Biden announced that Jackson was
what?
A: His nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court.
She will be sworn in and become an associate justice in
late June or early July when what happens?
A: When Breyer's retirement goes into effect.