U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was at Benaroya Hall in Seattle earlier this week, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, as part of her nationwide book tour to promote her book, Lovely One: A Memoir, that was released on Sept. 3. The book traces Justice Jackson’s extraordinary path of her family’s rise from segregation to her confirmation on the nation’s highest court within the span of a generation.
During her time in Seattle, Justice Jackson, the first black woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, offered Washington state judges time for mentorship and recognizing the importance of diversity on the bench. Seattle Municipal Court’s Presiding Judge Faye R. Chess, Judge Willie Gregory, Judge Anita Crawford-Willis, and Judge Pooja Vaddadi were in attendance.
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