Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; / kəˈtɑːndʒi / kə-TAHN-jee; born September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Jan 28, 2025 · An effort to overturn Mississippi’s disenfranchisement law has gone before the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly, and the case was repeatedly rejected by the majority, including this Monday. In her 2023 dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuked the law’s racist intent, saying it contained “the most toxic of substances” that needed to be removed. In addition to disenfranchisement, the ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the laws, the 5th circuit said. Using different legal arguments, lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement issue in 2023, over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jan 30, 2025 · Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing.

Jan 4, 2025 · Ketanji Brown Jackson (born September 14, 1970, Washington, D.C.) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2022. She was the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Jun 30, 2023 · The law still disproportionately disenfranchises Black Mississippians at higher rates than white residents. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted the law’s history today in a dissent against the court’s refusal to …

Jun 30, 2022 · Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just officially took her seat on the Supreme Court, making her the first-ever Black woman to serve as a justice in the Court’s 233-year history.

Apr 7, 2022 · Nomination Description: Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Mar 7, 2022 · Ketanji Brown Jackson, born Ketanji Onyika Brown in 1970, is a former federal judge and public defender nominated by President Joe Biden to become an associate justice on the Supreme...

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.