Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Associate Justice

Sources checked October 13, 2026. Canonical page /leaders/jackson.

• Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice. The Court biography states that President Joseph Biden nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2022.

  Supreme Court of the United States. About the Court — Current Members. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx. Accessed October 13, 2026.

• The Senate nominations chart records her confirmation on April 7, 2022, by 53 yeas to 47 nays, roll call number 134.

  United States Senate. Supreme Court Nominations (1789-Present). https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations/SupremeCourtNominations1789present.htm. Accessed October 13, 2026.

• She received an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992 and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996. She clerked for Judge Patti B. Saris from 1996 to 1997, for Judge Bruce M. Selya from 1997 to 1998, and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer during the 1999 Term. She was an attorney at the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 2003 to 2005, an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., from 2005 to 2007, and in private practice from 2007 to 2010. She was a Vice Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. She served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021. President Biden appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021.

  Supreme Court of the United States. About the Court — Current Members. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx. Accessed October 13, 2026.