MIAMI — As an exceptional student and formidable debater at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Ketanji Brown Jackson could have chosen a variety of career paths but she already knew exactly what she wanted to do.
“I want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment,” she was quoted in the 1988 Palmetto High yearbook Echo, in a prescient piece naming her to the graduation class Hall of Fame.
She’s now on President Joe Biden’s short list for the pinnacle of all judicial appointments — a historic nomination that could make her the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Black female justice. But that isn’t the only milestone that would distinguish Jackson from almost every other justice, past and present.
