JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson

By: Gabby Wahla, Assistant Director

This past Friday, we celebrated the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Jackson is the first Black woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. In a celebration on Friday, Justice Jackson said “that it [is] the honor of [her] lifetime, and that [she] understood what it had meant to the young Black women and girls who followed along with [her] nomination process” (New York Times). Justice Jackson also shared that she was “daunted by the idea of being a role model to so many, but that [she was] ready for the task” (New York Times). She shared a quote from Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise: “I do so now while bringing the gifts my ancestors gave. I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

“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,” she said. “But we’ve made it. We’ve made it. All of us.”

Here’s what the internet had to say about Justice Jackson’s confirmation: