Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the U.S.

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Signed copies of the Justice’s memoir will be available for purchase, but a book purchase is NOT required to attend and the Justice will not be signing books on-site. They are not part of the free book with $60+ donation promotion.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will share her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation. Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. Her moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Miami, Florida. She received her undergraduate and law degrees, both with honors, from Harvard University, then served as a law clerk for three federal judges, including Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson subsequently practiced law in the private sector, worked as an attorney and later as Vice Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and served as an assistant federal public defender. In 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, Jackson made history in 2022 when President Joseph Biden nominated her as an Associate Justice. The first Black woman ever confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States, she took her seat on June 30, 2022.

The event is sponsored by Platinum Sponsor Mount Holyoke College and Bronze Sponsor Western New England University School of Law.

In addition to Mount Holyoke’s Platinum Sponsorship of the event, the talk will be moderated by Mount Holyoke President Danielle R. Holley. The twentieth president of Mount Holyoke College, Holley is a noted legal scholar and educator. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a leading scholar of the Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious college and university admissions and is a lauded and sought-after expert on a wide range of civil rights and equity subjects. Holley currently serves as the co-chair of the Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, is a moderator for the Aspen Institute, an Aspen-Kern and Liberty Fellow through the Aspen Global Leadership Network, an American Council on Education Fellow and an American Bar Fellow and is the vice president of Five College Consortium. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, the trailblazing sorority for Black women in higher education founded at Howard University in 1913. Before joining Mount Holyoke, Holley served as Dean of the School of Law at Howard University (2014 – 2023). 

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