NYSUT celebrates Black History Month with a poster celebrating Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman and first former federal public defender to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Jackson was nominated to the post on Feb. 25, 2022, by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office the same year.
Born in Washington, D.C, and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson received her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, where she edited the Harvard Law Review and clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, who she later replaced on the Supreme Court.
From 2010 to 2014, Jackson was the vice chairwoman of the United States Sentencing Commission. In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed her to serve as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. President Joe Biden nominated her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, where she served until 2022.
The poster is available for download at nysut.org/publications.