Confirmed

Professionally Diverse

Ketanji Brown Jackson

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

NominatedApril 19, 2021

ConfirmedJune 14, 2021

On April 7, 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.

  • From 2021 to 2022, Judge Jackson served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson has a track-record of championing reform in the criminal justice system.
    • From 2010 to 2014, Jackson served as Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
    • Jackson supported Sentencing Commission action to make retroactive a reduction in penalties for crack cocaine, resulting in over 12,000 people being eligible to request reduced sentences.
    • From 2005 to 2007, Jackson served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia in the appeals division.
  • As a federal judge, Jackson has stood up for the rule of law and against the Trump administration’s abuses of power. For example, Jackson compelled White House counsel Don McGahn to testify to House impeachment investigators, writing that “presidents are not kings” and that “no one is above the law.”
  • Jackson has received substantial bipartisan support. She has twice been unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. In 2012 Rep. Paul Ryan introduced her at her confirmation hearing, calling her “clearly qualified.”
  • Jackson graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.