Ketanji Brown Jackson
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Voting Record
Total Votes
50
In Majority
70%
Dissents
15
Ideology
-2.8 Lib
Recent Votes
Ellingburg v. United States
24-482 · 2025 Term
Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
24-813 · 2025 Term
Rutherford v. United States
24-820 · 2025 Term
Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections
23-1197 · 2025 Term
Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel
24-783 · 2025 Term
Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, Inc.
25-406 · 2025 Term
Rico v. United States
24-1056 · 2025 Term
Blanche v. Lau
25-429 · 2025 Term
Pitchford v. Cain
24-7351 · 2025 Term
T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation
25-197 · 2025 Term
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I
24-856 · 2025 Term
M & K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund
23-1209 · 2025 Term
E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v. Carrera
23-217 · 2024 Term
Urias-Orellana v. Bondi
24-777 · 2025 Term
Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock
24-935 · 2025 Term
Wisconsin Bell, Inc. cv. United States, ex rel. Heath
23-1127 · 2024 Term
Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida
23-997 · 2024 Term
Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency
24-7 · 2024 Term
Esteras v. United States
23-7483 · 2024 Term
Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC
24-1238 · 2025 Term
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Biography
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1970. She was the first of two children of Johnny and Ellery Brown, both of whom were public school teachers. She received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996.
She served as a law clerk for Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1999 Term.
After three years in private practice, she worked as an attorney at the U.S. Sentencing Commission for two years, as an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., for two years, and again in private practice for three years. She then served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014.
In 2012, President Barack Obama nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where she served from 2013 to 2021. President Joe Biden appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2021 and then nominated her as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. She took her seat on June 30, 2022, becoming the first Black woman to sit on the Court.
Justice Jackson and her husband Patrick have two daughters.