Ketanji Brown Jackson
Associate Justice
Miami Connection
Jackson's family deeply influenced South Florida education: her father as Miami-Dade School Board attorney and her mother as New World School of the Arts principal. She inspires local youth, visiting Palmetto Senior High School post-confirmation and having a Cutler Bay street named in her honor, symbolizing possibilities for Miami's community.
About
Born in Washington, D.C., in 1970, Ketanji Brown Jackson was raised in Miami, attending Palmetto Senior High School where she excelled as a champion debater. Her father, Johnny Brown, a University of Miami School of Law alumnus, served as attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board, while her mother, Ellery Brown, was principal at New World School of the Arts. She earned undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, and served as a federal public defender, district judge, and U.S. Court of Appeals judge before her 2022 confirmation as Supreme Court Associate Justice. In 2023, she returned to Cutler Bay for the naming of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Street in her childhood neighborhood. Today, she continues to highlight her Miami upbringing as foundational to her role on the nation's highest court.