HKSDC Congratulates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. But we’ve made it. We’ve made it, all of us. All of us.

To be sure, I have worked hard to get to this point in my career, and I have now achieved something far beyond anything my grandparents could’ve possibly ever imagined. But no one does this on their own. The path was cleared for me so that I might rise to this occasion.”

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

The Harvard Kennedy School DC Alumni Council would like to congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on becoming the first Black female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As a graduate of the Harvard University and the Harvard Law School, her academic experience, judicial credentials, and legal expertise has proven her to be more than qualified for this historic appointment.