During her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson stressed her family and faith as part of her introduction to Congress.
“I can honestly say that my life has been blessed beyond measure even previous to today,” Jackson remarked on Monday before thanking and loving various members of her family.
Here’s who’s who in Michael Jackson’s family:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband, Patrick Jackson, is a Supreme Court nominee.
Jackson and her husband, Patrick, met in college and have been married for more than 25 years.
Patrick Jackson, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s spouse, and their daughters, Leila Jackson and Talia Jackson.
On Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Johnny and Ellery Brown listen to their daughter’s nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 21, 2022.
Jackson’s parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, have been married for 54 years.
According to her White House biography, they were both born in Miami and nurtured in the Jim Crow South, attending segregated elementary schools before graduating from historically Black institutions and universities. They settled in Washington, D.C., where they both worked as public school teachers.
Jackson’s family, from left, sibling Ketajh Brown, and guardians Johnny and Ellery Brown, sit together in the first line during Jackson’s designation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol.
Jackson and her more youthful sibling Ketajh, who was situated close to their folks at Monday’s hearing, are a decade separated in age.
Ketajh filled in as a secret medications recuperation official in the Baltimore City police division in the wake of moving on from Howard University.
