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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>


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" />


 
===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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Ketanji Brown Jackson
 
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'''Ketanji Brown Jackson''' (born September 14, 1970)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Voruganti |first=Harsh |date=March 30, 2021 |title=Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit |url=https://vettingroom.org/2021/03/30/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513041715/https://vettingroom.org/2021/03/30/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson/ |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |access-date=May 13, 2021 |website=The Vetting Room |language=en}}</ref> is an American attorney and jurist serving as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.<ref name="first slate" />
 
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 and from 2013 to 2021, she served as a district judge on 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 announced that Jackson was his nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy
created upon Breyer's retirement.<ref name="announce">{{cite press release |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=25 February 2022 |title=President Biden Nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/25/president-biden-nominates-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-serve-as-associate-justice-of-the-u-s-supreme-court/ |location= |publisher=White House Office |agency= |access-date=26 February 2022}}</ref>
 
==Early life and education==
Jackson was born Ketanji Onyika Brown on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Marimow |first=Ann E. |date=April 30, 2021 |title=Biden's court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson has navigated a path few Black women have |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-dc-circuit/2021/04/29/c0bd2f0c-a761-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430174107/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-dc-circuit/2021/04/29/c0bd2f0c-a761-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name="SenateQuestionnaire">{{Cite web |title=Questionnaire for judicial nominees |url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jackson%20Senate%20Questionnaire%20Public%20Final.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317143928/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jackson%20Senate%20Questionnaire%20Public%20Final.pdf |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |access-date=March 16, 2017 |publisher=[[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]}}</ref> Her parents were both graduates of historically Black colleges and universities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 7, 2009 |title=Capitol Hill Hearing - Nominations |url=https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/testimony/2009/robinson_test_091007.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126110655/https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/testimony/2009/robinson_test_091007.pdf |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=January 10, 2021 |website=Senate Judiciary Committee |publisher=Federal News Service}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Berke |first=Jeremy |date=February 17, 2016 |title=Influential Supreme Court expert is floating a new candidate to fill Scalia's seat |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-goldstein-says-obama-may-nominate-ketanji-brown-jackson-2016-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910223824/https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-goldstein-says-obama-may-nominate-ketanji-brown-jackson-2016-2 |archive-date=September 10, 2020 |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> Her father, Johnny Brown, was a lawyer who ultimately became the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board; her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at New World School of the Arts.<ref name="nyt" /><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article257749578.html#storylink=cpy | title = Supreme Court prospect Brown Jackson was 'star in the making' at Miami's Palmetto High  |date=January 26, 2022 | work = Miami Herald | first = Aaron | last = Leibowitz | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220202231046/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article257749578.html#storylink=cpy | archive-date = February 2, 2022 | access-date = January 27, 2022}}</ref> Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988.<ref name="SenateQuestionnaire" /> In her senior year (1988), she "won the national oratory title at the National Catholic Forensic League Championships in New Orleans, the second-largest high school debate tournament in the country."<ref>D'Angelo, Bob, and Natalie Dreier (February 25, 2022) [https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-5-things-know/2Y2EZ27XG5AM3HSHKLGMO7PYD4/ "Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?  5 things to know about Biden’s Supreme Court pick,"]  ''WFTV 9''. Retrieved February  25, 2022.</ref>
 
After high school, Jackson studied government at [[Harvard University]], graduating in 1992 with an A.B. ''magna cum laude'' and writing a senior thesis titled "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants". When she was in college, her uncle was sentenced to life in prison due to a nonviolent cocaine conviction. Years later, Jackson persuaded a law firm to take his case ''pro bono'', and President Barack Obama eventually commuted his sentence.<ref name="wapo2">{{Cite news |last1=Marimow |first1=Ann |last2=Davis |first2=Aaron |date=January 30, 2022 |title=Possible Supreme Court nominee, former defender, saw impact of harsh drug sentence firsthand |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ketanji-brown-jackson-uncle-prison/2022/01/30/669c5f68-8116-11ec-bf02-f9e24ccef149_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131070659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ketanji-brown-jackson-uncle-prison/2022/01/30/669c5f68-8116-11ec-bf02-f9e24ccef149_story.html |archive-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref> Another uncle, Calvin Ross, served as Miami's police chief.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news |last1=Mazzei |first1=Patricia |last2=Savage |first2=Charlie |date=January 30, 2022 |title=For Ketanji Brown Jackson, View of Criminal Justice Was Shaped by Family |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/us/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201204008/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/us/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref> During her time at Harvard, Jackson led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 27, 2022 |title=US Supreme Court: The women in the running to replace Stephen Breyer |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60160424 |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201210532/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60160424 |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref> She also performed improv comedy and took classes in drama.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 25, 2022 |title=Meet Ketanji Brown Jackson |work=New York Magazine |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jacksons-rise.html |access-date=February 25, 2022}}</ref>
 
Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for ''Time'' magazine from 1992 to 1993, then attended [[Harvard Law School]], where she was a supervising editor of the ''Harvard Law Review''. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor ''cum laude''.<ref name="SenateQuestionnaire" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ketanji Brown Jackson |url=http://www.mofo.com/attorneys/13412/summary.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906150725/http://www.mofo.com/attorneys/13412/summary.html |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |access-date=July 25, 2009 |website=Morrison & Foerster LLP}}</ref>

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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.[1][2]

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003.[3] From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.[4] 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.[5] 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".[6] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist at Morrison & Foerster.[3][2]

U.S. Sentencing Commission

On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.[7] 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.[8][2] During her time on the Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[9] and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.[10]