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| After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of [[Baker Botts]]), then clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.<ref name="SenateQuestionnaire" /><ref name="fjc.gov">{{Cite web |title=Jackson, Ketanji Brown |url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/jackson-ketanji-brown |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201230353/https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/jackson-ketanji-brown |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=[[Federal Judicial Center]]}}</ref>
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| Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003.<ref name="KetanjiCommission">{{Cite press release |title=President Obama Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to US Sentencing Commission |date=July 23, 2009 |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-nominates-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-sentencing-commission |access-date=January 6, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201230341/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-nominates-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-sentencing-commission |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]]}}</ref> From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Yaffe-Bellany |first1=David |last2=Stohr |first2=Greg |date=March 30, 2021 |title=Supreme Court Path Set for Potential First Black Female Nominee |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-30/supreme-court-path-set-for-judge-biden-taps-for-appellate-seat |url-status=live |access-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421194223/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-30/supreme-court-path-set-for-judge-biden-taps-for-appellate-seat |archive-date=April 21, 2021}}</ref> From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weiss Cassens |first=Debra |date=March 30, 2021 |title=Biden's first judicial picks include DC Circuit nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, said to be SCOTUS contender |language=en |work=ABA Journal |url=https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bidens-first-judicial-picks-include-dc-circuit-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-said-to-be-a-scotus-contender |url-status=live |access-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421194444/https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bidens-first-judicial-picks-include-dc-circuit-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-said-to-be-a-scotus-contender |archive-date=April 21, 2021}}</ref> A ''Washington Post'' review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".<ref name="potential">{{Cite news |title=Potential pick Ketanji Brown Jackson would make history as first federal public defender on Supreme Court |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/11/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-defender/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211162830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/11/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-defender/ |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist at [[Morrison & Foerster]].<ref name="KetanjiCommission" /><ref name="fjc.gov" />
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| ===U.S. Sentencing Commission===
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| On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ingram |first=David |date=July 24, 2009 |title=Obama Taps Another MoFo Lawyer |url=https://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/07/obama-taps-another-morrison-foerster-lawyer.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726072433/http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/07/obama-taps-another-morrison-foerster-lawyer.html |archive-date=July 26, 2009 |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times}}</ref> The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 28, 2013 |title=Former Commissioner Information |url=http://www.ussc.gov/about/commissioners/former-commissioner-information |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523001120/http://www.ussc.gov/about/commissioners/former-commissioner-information |archive-date=May 23, 2015 |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=ussc.gov}}</ref><ref name="fjc.gov" /> During her time on the Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,<ref name="first slate">{{Cite news |last1=Marimow |first1=Ann E. |last2=Viser |first2=Matt |date=March 29, 2021 |title=Biden's first slate of judicial nominees aims to quickly boost diversity in federal courts |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/biden-judicial-nominees-ketanji--brown-jackson/2021/03/29/38efad34-7773-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330130753/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/biden-judicial-nominees-ketanji--brown-jackson/2021/03/29/38efad34-7773-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html |archive-date=March 30, 2021}}</ref> and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwarzapfel |first=Beth |date=July 23, 2015 |title=Federal Prisons Could Release 1,000 Times More Drug Offenders Than Obama Did |url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/23/federal-prisons-could-release-1-000-times-more-drug-offenders-than-obama-did |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511021700/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/23/federal-prisons-could-release-1-000-times-more-drug-offenders-than-obama-did |archive-date=May 11, 2020 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |website=The Marshall Project}}</ref>
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