When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, a 51-year-old mother of two who grew up in Miami will make history as the first Supreme Court justice from Florida and the first Black woman.
The testimony on Thursday — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s fourth day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings — will include witnesses who have evaluated her capacity to serve as Supreme Court justice.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who grew up in Miami-Dade County and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School, will be answering more questions from the members of the Senate Judicial Committee on Wednesday in Capitol Hill.
Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Grassley, and Distinguished Members of the Judiciary Committee: thank you for convening this hearing and for considering my nomination as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. I am humbled and honored to be here, and I am truly grateful for the generous introductions that my former judicial colleague, Judge Tom Griffith, and my close friend Professor Lisa Fairfax have so graciously provided.
In a historic moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Miami native, was officially nominated to the Supreme Court on Friday.
The possibility that a Miami native could be the first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court is already having an impact.
Before she was a frontrunner to make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown-Jackson was dreaming of her future while a student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School.
