Ketanji Brown Jackson is a US attorney and jurist who is currently in office as a federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Ketanji is from Washington D. C. She is American by nationality and was born September 14, 1970.

Ketanji’s husband is Patrick Jackson, a surgeon who is also a descendant of Jonathan Jackson, a delegate to the Continental Congress. The couple has been married since 1996 and has two daughters.

Ketanji Jackson is part of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services as well as a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute.

She was part of the advisory board of Montrose Christian School between 2010 and 2011, also has been a judge in several mock trials with the Shakespeare Theatre Company and for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia’s Mock Court Program.

In 2018, Ketanji was made to preside over a mock trial which was hosted by Thomas R. Kline, School of Law at the Drexel University. In 2020, she has the pleasure to give the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture at the University of Michigan Law School.

Who Are Ketanji Brown Jackson Parents? Johnny Brown and Ellery Brown

Ketanji Jackson was born to Johnny Brown and Ellery Brown. Her father is late and her mother, Ellery, is a retired principal who once served as a school principal at New World School of the Arts.