Ketanji Brown Jackson Book: The Biography of Ketanji Brown Jackson

University Press returns with another short and captivating biography of one of history’s most compelling figures, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the most talented legal minds in American history. Before becoming the first black woman and first former federal public defender to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2022, Jackson first served as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, then as a judge for the U.S. District Court, then as judge for the U.S. Circuit Court. She has been instrumental in dramatically lowering federal prison sentences for drug offenders, written more than 600 opinions, famously ordered President Trump’s White House counsel to comply with a legislative subpoena, and, as a former liberal-leaning judge, she is expected to engage in ideological combat with the Supreme Court’s conservative justices. How did Ketanji Brown Jackson graduate from Harvard Law School, overcome social biases about her interracial marriage, balance the demands of her legal career – with the demands of her husband’s medical career – with the demands of raising her two daughters, restore public confidence in America’s legal system, and inspire millions of Americans to dream big? This short book tells the intensely human story of a woman who is changing the world in a way that no one else can.