Justice Jackson’s appointment fulfills President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court
This lifetime appointment will likely keep Ketanji Jackson on the bench for the foreseeable future, but it will have little impact on the existing court’s ideological balance, which is 6-3 conservative.
Ketanji Jackson, now 51, will succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, another liberal judge for whom she clerked, when he retires in June.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a lawyer and judge from the United States who has been a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.
Where was Ketanji Brown Jackson born and where is she from?
She was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C., United States.
Where did Ketanji Brown Jackson grow up?
Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
She grew up in Miami, Florida, where her path to a law career began.
