Celebrities React to Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS
🙌🏻 to the newest member of the Supreme Court of the United States
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/A27Onkeljd
- The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 7, 2022
⚖️ Ketanji Brown Jackson (born Ketanji Onyika Brown) is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021. She is the designate Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having received Senate confirmation with 50 Democrats (all) and 3 Republicans (Susan Collins-ME, Lisa Murkowski-AK, Mitt Romney-UT) voting to confirm.
🌟 KBJ was born in Washington, DC, and raised in Miami, Florida. Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Prior to her elevation to an appellate court, from 2013 to 2021, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
She is the first Black woman nominated to the US Supreme Court. She is married to Patrick Jackson (1996), who is descendant of Continental Congress delegate Jonathan Jackson, and related to US Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. They have two daughters, Leila and Talia.
Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic and well-deserved ascension to our nation’s highest court!
- John Legend (@johnlegend) April 7, 2022
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Congratulations Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!!! You have made history! ❤❤❤ pic.twitter.com/nkdMjW53dm
- Viola Davis (@violadavis) April 7, 2022
Congratulations to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic Supreme Court appointment! So well deserved.
- jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) April 7, 2022
Let’s all stop for a moment to appreciate the history being made today.
Congratulations, JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson.
You’re an absolute inspiration. pic.twitter.com/qF2KoTu8wG
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) April 7, 2022
I don’t feel this way enough in recent years…
So proud to be an American today.
Welcome Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/CeZIj10b1k
- Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) April 7, 2022
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/A27Onkeljd
- The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 7, 2022
⚖️ Ketanji Brown Jackson (born Ketanji Onyika Brown) is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021. She is the designate Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having received Senate confirmation with 50 Democrats (all) and 3 Republicans (Susan Collins-ME, Lisa Murkowski-AK, Mitt Romney-UT) voting to confirm.
🌟 KBJ was born in Washington, DC, and raised in Miami, Florida. Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Prior to her elevation to an appellate court, from 2013 to 2021, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
She is the first Black woman nominated to the US Supreme Court. She is married to Patrick Jackson (1996), who is descendant of Continental Congress delegate Jonathan Jackson, and related to US Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. They have two daughters, Leila and Talia.
Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic and well-deserved ascension to our nation’s highest court!
- John Legend (@johnlegend) April 7, 2022
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Congratulations Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!!! You have made history! ❤❤❤ pic.twitter.com/nkdMjW53dm
- Viola Davis (@violadavis) April 7, 2022
Congratulations to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic Supreme Court appointment! So well deserved.
- jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) April 7, 2022
Let’s all stop for a moment to appreciate the history being made today.
Congratulations, JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson.
You’re an absolute inspiration. pic.twitter.com/qF2KoTu8wG
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) April 7, 2022
I don’t feel this way enough in recent years…
So proud to be an American today.
Welcome Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/CeZIj10b1k
- Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) April 7, 2022
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