Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson


Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Incumbent
Assumed office March 26, 2013
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Henry H. Kennedy, Jr.
Personal details
Born	Ketanji Onyika Brown September 1970 (age 46) Washington, D.C.
Spouse(s)	Patrick G. Jackson (m. 1996; 2 children)
Education	Harvard University B.A. Harvard Law School J.D.

Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (born September 1970) is a United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In 2016, she was on Barack Obama's short list for the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia.

Ketanji Onyika Jackson (née Brown) was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents Johnny and Elorie(sp) Brown, are an attorney, and retired school principal, respectively. Jackson graduated from Miami Palmetto High School in 1988. Her parents still reside in Miami. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in government in 1992 from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor degree cum laude in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Jackson has served as a law clerk for three federal judges, including U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Patti B. Saris and U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya. She clerked for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 until 2000.