BREAKING: Kentaji Brown Jackson has been confirmed to the highest court in the country — making history as the first Black female. Jackson was confirmed in a 53-47 Senate vote. READ MORE:
Kentanji Brown Jackson can now add "Supreme Court justice" to her title after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the 51-year-old’s seat to the highest court in the country — making history as the first Black female.
However, three Republicans — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney — all said the same thing: they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well-qualified for the job. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for most of his party when he said he "cannot and will not" support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in hearings about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
"You faced insults here that were shocking to me," Booker said, speaking directly to Jackson, who is nominated to become the first Black woman on the high court. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Miami. She has said that her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, chose her name to express their pride in her family’s African ancestry. They asked an aunt who was in the Peace Corps in Africa at the time to send a list of African girls’ names and they picked Ketanji Onyika, which they were told meant "lovely one."
Jackson attended Harvard, where she studied government but also was involved in drama and musical theater and part of an improv group called On Thin Ice. At one point she was assigned actor Matt Damon as a drama class partner, she has said, acknowledging he probably wouldn’t remember her. He does not, Damon previously confirmed through a representative, but added: "That’s so cool!"
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