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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>

== Career==
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===
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>

===District Court===
On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 20, 2012 |title=President Obama Nominates Two to the United States District Courts |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/president-obama-nominates-two-united-states-district-courts |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411040310/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/president-obama-nominates-two-united-states-district-courts |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |website=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal."<ref name="nyt" /> On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 3, 2013 |title=President Obama Re-nominates Thirty-Three to Federal Judgeships |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/03/president-obama-re-nominates-thirty-three-federal-judgeships |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407085130/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/03/president-obama-re-nominates-thirty-three-federal-judgeships |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |website=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013<ref name="fjc.gov" /> and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Valencia |first=Milton J. |date=February 25, 2022 |title=Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden's pick for US Supreme Court? |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/25/nation/who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-bidens-nominee-us-supreme-court |accessdate=February 25, 2022}}</ref> 

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marimow |first=Ann |date=June 14, 2021 |title=Senate confirms D.C. Circuit nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Merrick Garland |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-sentate-confirmation-vote/2021/06/14/14da742a-cd3a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615125504/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-sentate-confirmation-vote/2021/06/14/14da742a-cd3a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |archive-date=June 15, 2021}}</ref> Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of [[Administrative Law|administrative law]]. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Savage |first=Charlie |date=January 26, 2022 |title=Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is among the leading candidates to succeed Justice Breyer. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201215753/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>

''Bloomberg Law'' reported in spring 2021 that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a "potential blemish on her record".<ref name=":0" /> In 2019, Jackson ruled that provisions in three Trump executive orders conflicted with federal employee rights to collective bargaining. Her decision was reversed unanimously by the D.C. Circuit. Another 2019 decision, involving a challenge to a Department of Homeland Security decision to expand the agency's definition of which noncitizens could be deported, was also reversed by the D.C. Circuit. Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, defended Jackson's record, saying Jackson "has written nearly 600 opinions and been reversed [fewer] than twelve times".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Alder |first=Madison |date=April 28, 2021 |title=Circuit Pick Jackson's Reversals a Likely Target for GOP |language=en |work=news.bloomberglaw.com |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/circuit-pick-jacksons-reversals-a-likely-target-for-senate-gop |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201203410/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/circuit-pick-jacksons-reversals-a-likely-target-for-senate-gop |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>

====Selected rulings====
In ''[[American Meat Institute v. U.S. Department of Agriculture]]'' (2013), Jackson rejected the meat packing industry's request for a preliminary injunction to block a U.S. Department of Agriculture rule requiring them to identify animals' country of origin. Jackson found that the rule likely did not violate the First Amendment.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abbott |first=Charles |date=September 11, 2013 |title=New U.S. meat label rule survives challenge by meat packers |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-meat-labeling-idUSBRE98A14U20130911 |url-status=live |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002003455/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-meat-labeling-idUSBRE98A14U20130911 |archive-date=October 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>''American Meat Institute v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture'', 968 F.Supp.2d 38 (D.D.C. 2013).</ref> 

In ''[[Depomed v. Department of Health and Human Services]]'' (2014), Jackson ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it failed to grant pharmaceutical company Depomed market exclusivity for its orphan drug, Gralise. Jackson concluded that the Orphan Drug Act required to FDA to grant Gralise exclusivity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kearn |first=Rebekah |date=September 12, 2014 |title=Orphan Drugmaker{{!}}Wins Exclusivity |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/orphan-drugmakerwins-exclusivity/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025231033/https://www.courthousenews.com/orphan-drugmakerwins-exclusivity/ |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |access-date=September 20, 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In ''[[Pierce v. District of Columbia]]'' (2015), Jackson ruled that the D.C. Department of Corrections violated the rights of a deaf inmate under the Americans with Disabilities Act because jail officials failed to assess the inmate's need for accommodations when he first arrived at the jail.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zapotosky |first=Matt |date=September 12, 2015 |title=Judge rules D.C. Corrections must pay damages in case of deaf inmate |language=en-US |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/judge-rules-dc-corrections-must-pay-damages-in-case-of-deaf-inmate/2015/09/12/34a9fda4-58bd-11e5-abe9-27d53f250b11_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207153758/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/judge-rules-dc-corrections-must-pay-damages-in-case-of-deaf-inmate/2015/09/12/34a9fda4-58bd-11e5-abe9-27d53f250b11_story.html |archive-date=February 7, 2021 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In April and June 2018, Jackson presided over two cases challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' decision to terminate grants for teen pregnancy prevention programs two years early.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hansler |first=Jennifer |date=June 4, 2018 |title=HHS loses another court battle over teen pregnancy prevention grant funding |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/02/politics/hhs-teen-pregnancy-program-dc-district-court/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128143954/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/02/politics/hhs-teen-pregnancy-program-dc-district-court/index.html |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |access-date=September 21, 2020 |website=CNN}}</ref> Jackson ruled that the decision to terminate the grants early, without any explanation for doing so, was arbitrary and capricious.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barbash |first=Fred |last2=Paul |first2=Deanna |date=March 19, 2019 |title=The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court |language=en-US |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924110102/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In ''[[American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump]]'' (2018), Jackson invalidated provisions of three executive orders that would have limited the time federal employee labor union officials could spend with union members, the issues that unions could bargain over in negotiations, and the rights of disciplined workers to appeal disciplinary actions. Jackson concluded that the executive orders violated the right of federal employees to collectively bargain, as guaranteed by the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vazquez |first=Maegan |date=August 25, 2018 |title=Judge strikes down sections of Trump exec orders for federal workers in victory for unions |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/donald-trump-executive-orders-unions/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019153652/https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/donald-trump-executive-orders-unions/index.html |archive-date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref> The D.C. Circuit vacated this ruling on jurisdictional grounds in 2019.<ref>''American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump'', 318 F.Supp.3d 370 (D.D.C. 2018), ''vacated'', 929 F.3d 748 (D.C. Cir. 2019).</ref>

In 2018, Jackson dismissed that 40 wrongful death and product liability lawsuits stemming from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which had been combined into a single multidistrict litigation. Jackson held that under the doctrine of ''forum non conveniens'', the suits should be brought in Malaysia, not the United States. The D.C. Circuit affirmed this ruling in 2020.<ref>''In re Air Crash Over Southern Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014'', 352 F.Supp.3d 19 (D.D.C. 2018), ''aff'd'', 946 F.3d 607 (D.C. Cir. 2020).</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Stempel |first=Jonathan |date=November 23, 2018 |title=U.S. judge dismisses litigation over missing Malaysia Airlines flight |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysiaairlines-mh370-lawsuit-idUSKCN1NS25B |url-status=live |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120180052/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysiaairlines-mh370-lawsuit-idUSKCN1NS25B |archive-date=November 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 12, 2018 |title=Judge Dismisses US Lawsuits Filed Over Malaysia Airlines Disappearance |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-dismisses-us-lawsuits-filed-101631778.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129004837/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-dismisses-us-lawsuits-filed-101631778.html |archive-date=January 29, 2022 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |website=[[Yahoo! Finance]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2019, in ''Center for Biological Diversity v. McAleenan'', Jackson held that Congress had, through the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear non-constitutional challenges to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to waive certain environmental requirements to facilitate construction of a [[Mexico–United States barrier|border wall]] on the United States and Mexico border.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grzincic |first=Barbara |date=September 6, 2019 |title=IN BRIEF: Trump administration can waive enviro laws for border wall - judge |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/border-wall-waiver-lawsuit-idUSL2N25X00X |url-status=live |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909091550/https://www.reuters.com/article/border-wall-waiver-lawsuit-idUSL2N25X00X |archive-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref>

In 2019, Jackson issued a preliminary injunction in ''Make The Road New York v. McAleenan'', blocking an agency rule that would have expanded "fast-track" deportations without immigration court hearings for undocumented immigrants.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hsu |first=Spencer S. |date=September 28, 2019 |title=Judge bars Trump fast-track deportation policy, saying threat to legal migrants was not assessed |language=en |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-bars-trump-fast-track-deportation-policy-saying-threat-to-legal-migrants-was-not-assessed/2019/09/28/cf3d237e-e1ed-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625033827/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-bars-trump-fast-track-deportation-policy-saying-threat-to-legal-migrants-was-not-assessed/2019/09/28/cf3d237e-e1ed-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html |archive-date=June 25, 2020}}</ref> Jackson found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had violated the Administrative Procedure Act because its decision was arbitrary and capricious and the agency did not seek public comment before issuing the rule.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gerstein |first=Josh |date=September 28, 2019 |title=Judge blocks Trump plan to expand fast-track deportations |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/28/judge-blocks-trump-fast-track-deportations-007717 |url-status=live |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625181818/https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/28/judge-blocks-trump-fast-track-deportations-007717 |archive-date=June 25, 2020}}</ref>

In 2019, Jackson issued a ruling in ''Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn'' in which the House Committee on the Judiciary sued Don McGahn, former White House Counsel for the Trump administration, to compel him to comply with the subpoena to appear at a hearing on its [[Data_Visualizations/Impeachment|impeachment inquiry]] on issues of alleged obstruction of justice by the administration. McGahn declined to comply with the subpoena after U.S. President Donald Trump, relying on a legal theory of executive testimonial immunity, ordered McGahn not to testify. In a lengthy opinion, Jackson ruled in favor of the House Committee and held that senior-level presidential aides "who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress must appear for testimony in response to that subpoena" even if the President orders them not to do so.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 25, 2019 |title=Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn, No. 19-cv-2379 (KBJ), Slip Op. at 116 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206055200/https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv2379-46}}</ref> Jackson rejected the administration's assertion of executive testimonial immunity by holding that "with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist."<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |date=November 25, 2019 |title=Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn, No. 19-cv-2379 (KBJ), Slip Op. at 115 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206055200/https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv2379-46}}.</ref> According to Jackson, that conclusion was "inescapable precisely because compulsory appearance by dint of a subpoena is a legal construct, not a political one, and per the Constitution, no one is above the law."<ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thomsen |first=Jacqueline |date=November 25, 2019 |title='No One Is Above the Law': Judge Says Donald McGahn Must Comply With House Subpoena for His Testimony |work=Law.com |url=https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/11/25/no-one-is-above-the-law-judge-says-donald-mcgahn-must-comply-with-house-subpoena-for-his-testimony/?slreturn=20191026004215 |url-status=live |access-date=November 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129073944/https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/11/25/no-one-is-above-the-law-judge-says-donald-mcgahn-must-comply-with-house-subpoena-for-his-testimony/?slreturn=20191026004215 |archive-date=January 29, 2022}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Samuelsohn |first=Darren |last2=Cheney |first2=Kyle |last3=Desiderio |first3=Andrew |date=November 25, 2019 |title=Don McGahn must testify about time as White House lawyer, judge rules |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/25/mueller-star-witness-must-testify-to-congress-judge-rules-073622 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126213847/https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/25/mueller-star-witness-must-testify-to-congress-judge-rules-073622 |archive-date=November 26, 2019 |access-date=November 26, 2019 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref> Jackson's use of the phrase "presidents are not kings" gained popular attention in subsequent media reporting on the ruling.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Durkee |first=Alison |date=November 25, 2019 |title='Presidents Are Not Kings': Federal Judge Destroys Trump's 'Absolute Immunity' Defense Against Impeachment |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/mcgahn-testify-subpoena-absolute-immunity-ruling |url-status=live |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709001234/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/mcgahn-testify-subpoena-absolute-immunity-ruling |archive-date=July 9, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yaeger |first=Lynn |date=December 1, 2019 |title=The Week in Washington: 'Presidents Are Not Kings!' |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/the-week-in-washington-president-donald-trump-presidents-are-not-kings |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924153809/https://www.vogue.com/article/the-week-in-washington-president-donald-trump-presidents-are-not-kings |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |website=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 26, 2019 |title=Judge tells Trump he's not a king – the President is not so sure |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/donald-trump-constitution-supreme-court-executive-power/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520044051/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/donald-trump-constitution-supreme-court-executive-power/index.html |archive-date=May 20, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Ryan J. |date=November 25, 2019 |title='Presidents Are Not Kings': Judge Orders Trump Lawyer McGahn To Testify Before Congress |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/don-mcgahn-testimony-ruling-trump-mueller-ukraine_n_5ddbf046e4b0d50f3293d9d7 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513081224/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/don-mcgahn-testimony-ruling-trump-mueller-ukraine_n_5ddbf046e4b0d50f3293d9d7 |archive-date=May 13, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |website=[[Huffington Post]] |language=en}}</ref> In noting that Jackson took four months to resolve the case, including writing a 120 page opinion, ''The Washington Post'' wrote: "That slow pace contributed to helping Mr. Trump run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort before the 2020 election."<ref name="nyt" /> The ruling was appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hsu |first=Spencer S. |date=November 28, 2019 |title=Appeals court stays ruling that former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with House subpoena |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/justice-department-asks-to-stay-court-ruling-that-former-white-house-counsel-donald-mcgahn-must-comply-with-house-subpoena-pending-appeal/2019/11/27/ddf2c708-112b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127194740/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/justice-department-asks-to-stay-court-ruling-that-former-white-house-counsel-donald-mcgahn-must-comply-with-house-subpoena-pending-appeal/2019/11/27/ddf2c708-112b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html |archive-date=November 27, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> and the D.C. Circuit affirmed part of Jackson's decision nine months later in August 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Appeals court rejects key argument against McGahn subpoena |language=en |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/07/appeals-court-rules-mcgahn-must-testify-392562 |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807145405/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/07/appeals-court-rules-mcgahn-must-testify-392562 |archive-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref> While the case remained pending, on June 4, 2021, McGahn testified behind closed doors under an agreement reached with the Biden administration.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Savage |first=Charlie |last2=Fandos |first2=Nicholas |date=June 4, 2021 |title=McGahn testifies about Trump's efforts to obstruct the Russia inquiry |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/mcgahn-trump-russia-inquiry.html?name=undefined&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_reading_list_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=1_reading_list |url-status=live |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210045757/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/mcgahn-trump-russia-inquiry.html?name=undefined&region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_reading_list_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=1_reading_list |archive-date=December 10, 2021}}</ref>

===Court of Appeals===
On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jackson to serve as a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.<ref name="WHBio">{{Cite press release|title=President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates|date=March 30, 2021|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/30/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-11-judicial-candidates/|access-date=May 14, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330150653/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/30/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-11-judicial-candidates/|archive-date=March 30, 2021|website=The White House}}</ref> On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Jackson to the seat vacated by Judge [[Merrick Garland]], who stepped down to become attorney general.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 19, 2021|title=Nominations Sent to the Senate|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/19/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-11/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509140740/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/19/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-11/|archive-date=May 9, 2021|access-date=May 14, 2021|website=The White House}}</ref>

On April 28, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 28, 2021|title=Nominations &#124; United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/04/21/2021/nominations|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513205620/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/04/21/2021/nominations|archive-date=May 13, 2021|access-date=May 14, 2021|website=judiciary.senate.gov}}</ref> During her confirmation hearing, Jackson was questioned about several of her rulings against the Trump administration.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marimow|first=Ann|date=April 28, 2021|title=Biden judicial pick Ketanji Brown Jackson defends her independence in Senate hearing|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-defends-independence-in-senate-hearing/2021/04/28/ea4015c8-a794-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827155730/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-defends-independence-in-senate-hearing/2021/04/28/ea4015c8-a794-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html|archive-date=August 27, 2021}}</ref> On May 20, 2021, Jackson's nomination was reported out of committee by a 13–9 vote.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 20, 2021|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%20May%2020,%202021.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129030805/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%20May%2020,%202021.pdf|archive-date=January 29, 2022|access-date=January 27, 2022|publisher=Senate Judiciary Committee}}</ref> On June 10, 2021, cloture was invoked on her nomination by a vote of 52–46.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 10, 2021|title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Ketanji Brown Jackson to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit)|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00229|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611002821/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00229|archive-date=June 11, 2021|access-date=June 10, 2021|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 53–44 vote.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 14, 2021|title=On the Nomination (Confirmation: Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit)|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00231.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126170858/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00231.htm|archive-date=January 26, 2022|website=www.senate.gov|publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=June 15, 2021}}</ref> She received her judicial commission on June 17, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=U.S. Court of Appeals – D.C. Circuit – Ketanji Brown Jackson|url=https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/Content/VL+-+Judges+-+KBJ|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202750/https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/Content/VL+-+Judges+-+KBJ|archive-date=June 24, 2021|access-date=June 20, 2021|website=www.cadc.uscourts.gov}}</ref>

Jackson's first decision as a court of appeals judge invalidated a 2020 rule by the Federal Labor Relations Authority that had restricted the bargaining power of federal-sector labor unions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Supreme Court Hopeful Tosses Labor Policy in Debut Ruling (3)|url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bargaining-policy-tossed-in-judge-jacksons-debut-circuit-ruling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201230833/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bargaining-policy-tossed-in-judge-jacksons-debut-circuit-ruling|archive-date=February 1, 2022|access-date=February 1, 2022|website=news.bloomberglaw.com|language=en}}</ref>

===Legal philosophy===
In January 2022, ''The New York Times'' reported that Jackson had "not yet written a body of appeals court opinions expressing a legal philosophy" because she had joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the summer of 2021. However, ''The Times'' said, Jackson's earlier rulings "comported with those of a liberal-leaning judge", including her opinions blocking various Trump administration actions.<ref name="nyt" /> Additionally, a review of over 500 of her judicial opinions indicates she would likely be as liberal as Justice [[Stephen Breyer]], the justice she is nominated to replace.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liptak |first1=Adam |title=Judge Jackson’s Rulings: Detailed, Methodical and Leaning Left |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/us/supreme-court-kentaji-brown-jackson-rulings.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=25 February 2022}}</ref>

According to Sahil Kapur, writing for NBC News, "Jackson fits well with the Democratic Party and the progressive movement's agenda" due to her relative youth, background as a public defender, and history of labor-friendly rulings.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kapur|first=Sahil|date=January 26, 2022|title=Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson? A likely Biden short-lister for Supreme Court|language=en|work=NBC News|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/who-ketanji-brown-jackson-likely-biden-short-lister-supreme-court-n1288053|url-status=live|access-date=February 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201211222/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/who-ketanji-brown-jackson-likely-biden-short-lister-supreme-court-n1288053|archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>

''Politico'' reported that "Jackson is popular with liberal legal activists looking to replace Breyer with a justice willing to engage in ideological combat with the court's conservatives."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gerstein|first=Josh|date=February 25, 2022|title=Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman selected for the nation's top court|language=en|work=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/25/ketanji-brown-jackson-is-the-first-black-woman-selected-for-the-nations-top-court-00011793|access-date=February 25, 2022}}</ref>

===Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States===
In early 2016, the Obama administration officials vetted Jackson as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the death of [[Antonin Scalia]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tillman|first=Zoe|date=February 26, 2016|title=Source: D.C. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Vetted for Scalia Seat|url=https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/almID/1202750846454/Source-DC-Judge-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-Vetted-for-Scalia-Seat/?/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129095328/https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/almID/1202750846454/Source-DC-Judge-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-Vetted-for-Scalia-Seat/?%2F|archive-date=January 29, 2022|access-date=February 15, 2022|website=National Law Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Amy|last2=Markon|first2=Jerry|last3=Horwitz|first3=Sari|date=March 7, 2016|title=Here are judges the White House is considering for the Supreme Court|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/here-are-the-five-judges-the-white-house-is-considering-for-the-supreme-court/2016/03/06/2e785858-e0a4-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html|url-status=live|access-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308023002/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/here-are-the-five-judges-the-white-house-is-considering-for-the-supreme-court/2016/03/06/2e785858-e0a4-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html|archive-date=March 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Gresko|first=Jessica|date=March 9, 2016|title=Possible Supreme Court pick would make history in many ways|language=en-US|work=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-paul-ryan-archive-courts-barack-obama-04912e7e61b242a689dc90282141961d|url-status=live|access-date=September 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614215520/https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-paul-ryan-archive-courts-barack-obama-04912e7e61b242a689dc90282141961d|archive-date=June 14, 2021}}</ref> Jackson was one of five candidates interviewed as a potential nominee for the vacancy.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Edwards|first=Julia|date=March 10, 2016|title=White House interviewing five potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees: source|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-nominees/white-house-interviewing-five-potential-u-s-supreme-court-nominees-source-idUSKCN0WC08T|url-status=live|access-date=September 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924234825/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-nominees/white-house-interviewing-five-potential-u-s-supreme-court-nominees-source-idUSKCN0WC08T|archive-date=September 24, 2017}}</ref>

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In early 2022, news outlets speculated that Biden would nominate Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by Stephen Breyer.<ref name="kapur">{{Cite web|last=Kapur|first=Sahil|date=May 6, 2020|title=Biden pledged to put a black woman on the Supreme Court. Here's what he might have to do.|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/problem-biden-s-pledge-black-woman-justice-n1200826|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922234512/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/problem-biden-s-pledge-black-woman-justice-n1200826|archive-date=September 22, 2020|access-date=September 19, 2020|website=NBC News|publisher=NBCUniversal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Feldman|first=Noah|date=August 13, 2020|title=Meet Joe Biden's Likeliest Picks for the Supreme Court|url=https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/meet-joe-biden-s-likeliest-supreme-court-nominees|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923231244/https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/meet-joe-biden-s-likeliest-supreme-court-nominees|archive-date=September 23, 2020|access-date=September 19, 2020|website=Bloomberg Quint: Opinion|publisher=Bloomberg L.P}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ross|first=Janell|date=January 31, 2019|title=Ketanji Brown Jackson: A decisive force applying rules to any and all|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ketanji-brown-jackson-decisive-force-applying-rules-any-all-n964761|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106002934/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ketanji-brown-jackson-decisive-force-applying-rules-any-all-n964761|archive-date=November 6, 2020|access-date=September 19, 2020|website=NBC News|publisher=NBCUniversal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Eight of the Most Important People to Watch in 2021|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/eight-of-the-most-important-people-to-watch-in-2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219202108/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/eight-of-the-most-important-people-to-watch-in-2021|archive-date=February 19, 2021|access-date=February 19, 2021|website=Bloomberg News|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.}}</ref> Biden pledged during the 2020 United States presidential election campaign to appoint a Black woman to the court, should a vacancy occur.<ref name="kapur" /> Jackson's appointment to the D.C. Circuit, considered to be the second most influential federal court in the United States, behind only the Supreme Court, was viewed as preparation for a potential promotion to the Supreme Court.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Pete|date=January 26, 2022|title=Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-supreme-court-paving-way-biden-appointment-n1288042|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126172013/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-supreme-court-paving-way-biden-appointment-n1288042|archive-date=January 26, 2022|access-date=January 26, 2022|website=NBC News|language=en}}</ref>

Jackson's potential nomination to the Supreme Court has been supported by civil rights and liberal advocacy organizations.<ref name="wapo2" /> ''The Washington Post'' wrote that Jackson's experience as a public defender "has endeared her to the more liberal base of the Democratic Party".<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 27, 2022|title=A guide to the Black female judges who are contenders to replace Justice Breyer|language=en|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/supreme-court-breyer-replacement-black-candidates/|url-status=live|access-date=February 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127235330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/supreme-court-breyer-replacement-black-candidates/|archive-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref> While her supporters have touted her history as a public defender as an asset, during her 2021 confirmation hearing, Republicans showed that they might cast her public defender work as a liability.<ref name="potential" />

On February 25, 2022, Biden announced that Jackson was his nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court.<ref name="announce" />

== Affiliations==
Jackson is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services as well as Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Court of Appeals – D.C. Circuit – Ketanji Brown Jackson |url=https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/content/VL+-+Judges+-+KBJ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131111130/https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/content/VL+-+Judges+-+KBJ |archive-date=January 31, 2022 |access-date=February 1, 2022 |website=www.cadc.uscourts.gov}}</ref> She also currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees – Georgetown Day School |url=https://www.gds.org/about/leadership-and-faculty/board-of-trustees |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926142105/https://www.gds.org/about/leadership-and-faculty/board-of-trustees |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |access-date=September 28, 2020 |website=www.gds.org |language=en-US}}</ref> and the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Commission.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Commission – Supreme Court of the United States |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/fellows/commission.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616144205/https://www.supremecourt.gov/fellows/commission.aspx |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=www.supremecourt.gov}}</ref>

From 2010 to 2011, she served on the advisory board of Montrose Christian School, a Baptist school.<ref>"[https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brown%20Jackson%20Responses1.pdf Responses to questions for the record] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121073944/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brown%20Jackson%20Responses1.pdf|date=January 21, 2022}}" (PDF). [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]. Retrieved January 28, 2022.</ref> Jackson has served as a judge in several mock trials with the Shakespeare Theatre Company<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2019 |title=U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Oversees Unanimous Jury Decision About Ancient Greek Crime |url=https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2019/06/28/shakespeare-theatre-company-mock-trial/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616144207/https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2019/06/28/shakespeare-theatre-company-mock-trial/ |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=DC Metro Theater Arts |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Treanor |first=Tim |date=December 13, 2017 |title=Olivia versus Sebastian: outcome of Twelfth Night Mock Trial |url=https://dctheatrescene.com/2017/12/13/twelfth-night-mock-olivia-versus-sebastian/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616144213/https://dctheatrescene.com/2017/12/13/twelfth-night-mock-olivia-versus-sebastian/ |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=DC Theatre Scene |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamm |first=Andrew |date=December 13, 2016 |title=Friar Laurence free to go in case of Juliet and her Romeo |url=https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/12/friar-laurence-free-to-go-in-case-of-juliet-and-her-romeo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616155519/https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/12/friar-laurence-free-to-go-in-case-of-juliet-and-her-romeo/ |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=SCOTUSblog |language=en}}</ref> and for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia's Mock Court Program.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stein |first=Shira |date=December 15, 2017 |title=As a high school student during the Vietnam War, she wore her protest on her sleeve |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/as-a-high-school-student-during-the-vietnam-war-she-wore-her-protest-on-her-sleeve/2017/12/14/ad4ffbfa-e10f-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127005940/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/as-a-high-school-student-during-the-vietnam-war-she-wore-her-protest-on-her-sleeve/2017/12/14/ad4ffbfa-e10f-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html |archive-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref> Jackson presided over a mock trial, hosted by Drexel University's [[Thomas R. Kline School of Law]] in 2018, "to determine if Vice President Aaron Burr was guilty of murdering" Alexander Hamilton.<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 16, 2018|title=Unprecedented 'Trial' of Aaron Burr and Scholarly Discussion Highlight Alexander Hamilton's Legacies in Law and Culture|url=https://drexel.edu/law/about/news/articles/overview/2018/November/hamilton-burr-trial/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616153028/https://drexel.edu/law/about/news/articles/overview/2018/November/hamilton-burr-trial/|archive-date=June 16, 2020|access-date=June 16, 2020|website=Kline School of Law|language=en}}</ref>

In 2017, Jackson presented at the [[University of Georgia School of Law]]'s 35th Edith House Lecture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Ketanji |date=March 2, 2017 |title=Reflections on My Journey as a Mother and a Judge |url=https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/41 |url-status=live |journal=Edith House Lectures |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616153234/https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/41/ |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020}}</ref> In 2018, Jackson participated as a panelist at the National Constitution Center's town hall on the legacy of Alexander Hamilton.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hamilton: The Man, the Musical, and the Law|url=https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/town-hall-video/hamilton-the-man-the-musical-and-the-law|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611132834/https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/town-hall-video/hamilton-the-man-the-musical-and-the-law|archive-date=June 11, 2021|access-date=May 14, 2021|website=The National Constitution Center}}</ref> In 2020, Jackson gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture at the [[University of Michigan Law School]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Billiter |first=Laura |date=January 29, 2020 |title=The Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson's MLK Day Lecture Honors Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement |url=https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/hon-ketanji-brown-jacksons-mlk-day-lecture-honors-black-women-leaders-civil-rights-movement |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127192502/https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/hon-ketanji-brown-jacksons-mlk-day-lecture-honors-black-women-leaders-civil-rights-movement |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=Michigan Law}}</ref> and was honored at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]'s third annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner, which was hosted by the school's Black Law Students Association.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 24, 2020 |title=BLSA Honors Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at Third Annual Parsons Dinner |url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/slideshows/community-celebrates-xxx-third-annual-parsons-dinner |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616144204/https://www.law.uchicago.edu/slideshows/community-celebrates-xxx-third-annual-parsons-dinner |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |website=University of Chicago Law School}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1996, Jackson married surgeon Patrick G. Jackson, a sixth-generation Harvard graduate, whose family is considered Boston Brahmin.<ref name="wapo2022-02-25">{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Roxanne |title=How Paul Ryan is related to Ketanji Brown Jackson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/02/25/paul-ryan-ketanji-brown-jackson/ |publisher=Washington Post |date=2022-02-25}}</ref> Jackson is descended from delegate to the Continental Congress, Jonathan Jackson, and is related to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Jackson |url=https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Jonathan-Jackson/p452870 |website=Our Family Tree |quote=Jonathan Jackson → James Jackson → Francis Henry Jackson → James Tracy Jackson → James Tracy Jackson, Jr. → Francis Gardner Jackson → Francis Gardner Jackson, Jr. → Patrick Graves Jackson}}</ref> The couple have two daughters. Patrick Jackson's twin brother is the brother-in-law of Janna Ryan, wife of former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.<ref name="Goldstein2016">{{Cite web |last=Goldstein |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Goldstein |date=February 16, 2016 |title=Continued thoughts on the next nominee (and impressions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson) |url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/continued-thoughts-on-the-next-nominee-and-impressions-of-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson/amp/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317144856/http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/continued-thoughts-on-the-next-nominee-and-impressions-of-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson/amp/ |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |access-date=March 16, 2017 |newspaper=SCOTUSblog}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{FJC Bio|nid=1394151}}
*{{C-SPAN|Ketanji Brown Jackson}}