Ketanji Brown Jackson Among Judges Being Considered as President Obama’s Nominee to Supreme Court
According to an article in the Washington Post, Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge appointed in 2013 to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is among five candidates under consideration for President Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Other judges under consideration include: Sri Srinivasan and Patricia A. Millett, both joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2013,; Jane L. Kelly, appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit; and Paul J. Watford, a judge on the California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
According to dcd.uscourts.gov, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received her commission as a United States District Judge in March 2013. Until December of 2014, she also served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission.
Prior to her service on the Commission, Judge Jackson worked for three years as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on criminal and civil appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. From 2005 until 2007, prior to joining Morrison & Foerster LLP, Judge Jackson served as an assistant federal public defender in the Appeals Division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the District of Columbia. Before that appointment, Judge Jackson worked 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.
Judge Jackson received an A.B., magna cum laude, in Government from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, and, in 1996, a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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