Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013. Prior to joining the federal bench, Judge Jackson served as a Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission beginning in 2010. District Judge for the District of Columbia. Judge Jackson was nominated by President Obama to the federal bench and was confirmed by the Senate on March 23, 2013. Judge Jackson served from 2007-2010 as a litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States. From 2005 until 2007, prior to joining Morrison & Foerster LLP, Judge Jackson worked as an assistant federal public defender in the Appeals Division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the District of Columbia. Judge Jackson previously served as an assistant special counsel at the United States Sentencing Commission and as an associate with two law firms, one specializing in white-collar criminal defense, the other focusing on the negotiated settlement of mass-tort claims. She also served as a law clerk to three federal judges, including Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Jackson received an A.B., magna cum laude, in Government from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.