Episode 1785
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Wed, 2022-Mar-23 02:05 UTC
Length - 2:24
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With 266,672 views on Tuesday, 22 March 2022 our article of the day is Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Ketanji Brown Jackson (born Ketanji Onyika Brown; kÉ™-TAHN-jee; September 14, 1970) is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021. She is a current nominee for the Supreme Court, awaiting confirmation in the Senate.
Born in Washington, D. C., and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Prior to her elevation to an appellate court, from 2013 to 2021, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy created by Breyer's retirement. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:05 UTC on Wednesday, 23 March 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wikipedia.
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