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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!


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342. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!

Today is a big day! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joins Glennon and Amanda to share her deeply personal journey to becoming the first Black woman Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.  

Discover:

  • How four misspelled words changed her entire world view;  
  • How the angel she encountered for 5 seconds at Harvard kept her striving;
  • What her Autistic daughter taught her about living well;
  • Her grandmother’s advice that keeps her undistracted by the unfairness she faces; and
  • How the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling affects democracy.

  • Justice Jackson’s beautiful new memoir, Lovely One, is out today!


    On the Guest: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received her undergraduate and law degrees, both with honors, from Harvard University, then served as a law clerk for three federal judges, practiced law in the private sector, worked as Commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and served as an assistant federal public defender. President Obama nominated Justice Jackson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, Justice Jackson made history in 2022 when President Biden nominated her as an Associate Justice. One of only 115 people in history to have the job – and the Black woman ever to have the job – she was confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and took her seat on June 30, 2022.

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