Life’s Work: An Interview with Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Summary.
Jackson announced her ambition to sit on the Supreme Court when she was just a teenager. Now she is the first Black woman to do so.Born six years after the U.S. Civil Rights Act hastened desegregation, Brown became a debate champion and class president at her mostly white high school. In her college applications she declared her intention to be the first Black female Supreme Court Justice. After earning undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard and then working for nearly three decades as a lawyer and a judge, in 2022 she made good on that goal. Her new memoir is called Lovely One.