“Over time I learned to zip shut any bags I might be carrying before I walked into a shop, and to always keep my hands in plain sight. I also never entered a clothing store's changing room without first tracking down a salesperson and establishing the exact number of pieces I would be trying on, even when doing so was not expected or required.”

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.