Making history Ketanji Brown Jackson’s blazing trail to the bench
Apr 15, 2022
3 minutes
By Ed Pilkington
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the US supreme court shatters several glass ceilings in America’s long struggle to form a more perfect union.
Jackson will be the first Black woman to sit on the court since it assembled in 1790 and the first justice with experience as a public defender to join the bench.
When she takes her seat on the nine-justice panel, after Stephen Breyer’s retirement, probably in
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