Ketanji Brown Jackson: First Black Woman on the US Supreme Court
TABLE OF CONTENTS Standout Student Harvard and Her Gap Year Law School and Beyond Defending the Disadvantaged Serving on the US District Court Leading with the Law Changes in the Nation Joining the Supreme Court Important Dates Source Notes Selected Bibliography Index 10 14 17 21 23 28 31 34 40 42 44 46
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
In March 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson sat before a microphone ready to answer questions from US senators She knew they wanted to find out more about her She'd been nominated for the US Supreme Court the highest court in the nation and they wanted to be sure she was the right person for the job Jackson had spent much of her career as a judge She might have expected questions about previous cases she'd ruled on and how she approached applying the law But Republican senator Ted Cruz sat with a stack of children's books next to him He flipped through the pages of a book called Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi Cruz quoted aloud from several pages Cruz said that the book was being taught at a private school in Washington DC where Jackson was a board member and where one of her
