Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (born September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C.) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the first Black woman, the first former federal public defender, and the sixth woman to serve on the Court. Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida, where she excelled in debate at Miami Palmetto Senior High School. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude in government from Harvard University in 1992 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her legal career includes clerkships with U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Bruce M. Selya, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, as well as work as an assistant federal public defender and service on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. She served as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2013–2021) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2021–2022). Nominated by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, she was confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2022, and sworn in on June 30, 2022. Jackson is married to surgeon Patrick G. Jackson (married 1996) and has two daughters. She published a memoir, 'Lovely One,' in 2024.