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Congratulating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States and urging the U.S. Senate to confirm her nomination.
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WHEREAS, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Miami, Florida. Her parents attended segregated primary schools, and then attended historically Black colleges and universities. Both started their careers as public school teachers and became leaders and administrators in the Miami-Dade Public School System. When Judge Jackson was in preschool, her father attended law school. In a 2017 lecture, Judge Jackson traced her love of the law back to sitting next to her father in their apartment as he tackled his law school homework-reading cases and preparing for Socratic questioning-while she undertook her preschool homework-coloring books; and
WHEREAS, Judge Jackson stood out as a high achiever throughout her childhood. She was a speech and debate star who was elected "mayor" of Palmetto Junior High and student body president of Miami Palmetto Senior High School. But like many Black women, Judge Jackson still faced naysayers. When Judge Jackson told her high school guidance counselor she wanted to attend Harvard, the guidance counselor warned that Judge Jackson should not set her "sights so high"; and
WHEREAS, That clearly did not stop Judge Jackson. She not only attended Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude, but she then attended Harvard Law School, where she graduated cum laude and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; and
WHEREAS, Early in her legal career, Judge Jackson served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the seat for which she has now been nominated. Judge Jackson also served as a Public Defender, which would make her the first former public defender to serve on the Supreme Court; and
WHEREAS, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Jackson to serve as the Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2...
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