June 30: Ketanji Brown Jackson Joins the Supreme Court (2022)
Prayer Idea
Pray for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her work on the Supreme Court.
History Note
Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1970, and grew up in Florida. She attended Harvard University.
She clerked for two federal judges and for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. She spent several years in private law practice and worked as an assistant public defender in Washington, D.C.
President Obama nominated Jackson to serve on the United States Sentencing Commission in 2009 and then to be a federal judge in 2012.
President Biden nominated Jackson as a circuit judge in 2021 and then to the Supreme Court in 2022. The Senate confirmed her 53-47.
Justice Jackson and her husband have two daughters.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Supreme Court Building in 2022. Her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, holds two Bibles. One is a family Bible. Justice John Marshall Harlan, the only justice to dissent in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that upheld racial segregation, donated the other Bible to the court in 1906. Photo by Fred Schilling from the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Learn More
At Homeschool History, you can explore our timeline of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. You can also watch Ketanji Brown Jackson’s opening statement at her confirmation hearings.
