Ketanji Brown Jackson (born September 1970) is an American lawyer and current commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission.
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A native of Miami, Florida, Jackson graduated from Miami Palmetto High School in 1988.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in government in 1992 from Harvard University and a law degree cum laude in 1996 from Harvard Law School.[2]
Jackson has served as a law clerk for three federal judges, including United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Patti B. Saris and United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya. She clerked for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court from 1999 until 2000.
Jackson worked in private legal practice from 1998 until 1999 and again from 2000 until 2003.[3] From 2003 until 2005, she remained in private practice as an attorney at the Feinberg Group law firm, and she also served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.[4] From 2005 until 2007, Jackson served as an assistant federal public defender in the District of Columbia.[5] In 2007, Jackson joined the law firm of Morrison & Foerster.[6]
On July 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson to the part-time role of being one of the seven voting members on the United States Sentencing Commission.[7] The United States Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010.
Jackson will serve on the United States Sentencing Commission through 2013. She succeeded Michael Horowitz, who served from 2003 until 2009.
Ketanji married Patrick G. Jackson in 1996. They have two daughters.