Ketanji Brown Jackson: podcast appearances and interviews

Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida. Jackson received her undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she later took on the Supreme Court. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the United States Senate in the same year. She is notably the first Black woman, the first former federal public defender, and the sixth woman to serve on the court. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, Jackson served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, after being appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013. She was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Biden in 2021, serving until 2022. From 2010 to 2014, she was the vice chairwoman of the United States Sentencing Commission, and from 2016 to 2022, she was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Jackson is considered part of the Court's liberal wing alongside Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.