Emmanuella 
President Joe Biden kept one of his promises. Following the announcement of Stephen J. Breyer’s retirement, Biden told the world that he would nominate a Black woman as a Supreme Court judge, and he did. Ketanji Brown Jackson is well on her way to holding this historical position in the country highest court. Here are some fast facts about her.
Fast Facts
* Judge Jackson was born September 14, 1970 In Washington and raised in Miami, Florida.
*She graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988 where she was a speech and debate superstar.
* Her successful career was partly inspired by her parents; both graduates of historically Black colleges. Her dad served as a chief attorney and her mother as a school principal.
*In her senior year of high school, she also won the National Catholic Forensically League Championships which is one of the most prestigious debate tournaments in the United States.
* She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, then attended Harvard Law School, where she graduated cum laude and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
* Judge Jackson represented defendants who did not have the means to pay for a lawyer. She would be the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court.
*President Obama nominated Judge Jackson to be a district court judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012. She was confirmed with bipartisan support in 2013.
*Judge Jackson was one of President Biden’s first judicial nominees. She was confirmed with bipartisan support to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2021.
*Judge Jackson is married to surgeon Patrick G. Jackson and has two daughters.
* Now that President Biden has named Judge Jackson as his nominee, the President will seek the Senate’s consent to confirm her to the Supreme Court.
*According to CNN, Democratic leadership is pushing to have Judge Jackson’s confirmation ahead of the Senate’s April recess, with her officially sworn-in after Breyer’s retirement in early summer.
By Emmanuella Alausa, Bishop Thomas Grant High School, London
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