“Having lawyers who can set aside their own personal beliefs about their client's alleged behavior or their client's propensity to commit crimes benefits all persons in the United States because it incentivizes the government to investigate accusations thoroughly and to protect the rights of the accused during the criminal justice process.”

American lawyer and jurist, Supreme Court justice

Ketanji Brown Jackson is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Born Ketanji Onyika Brown, she was nominated to the Court by President Joe Biden in 2022 and confirmed later that year. She is the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, the first former federal public defender to do so, and the sixth woman in the Court’s history. Her public profile is closely tied to her role on the nation’s highest court and to the significance of her appointment in American legal history.