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Mountain View News Saturday, February 26, 2022 

Ketanji Brown Jackson is currently a federal Judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia 
Circuit since 2021. On February 25, 2022, President JoeBiden announced that Jackson was his nominee for Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling 
the vacancy that would be created upon Breyer's plannedretirement. 

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida,
Jackson attended Harvard University for college and lawschool, where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. 
She began her legal career with three clerkships, including 
one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice StephenBreyer. Prior to her elevation to an appellate court and from 
2013 to 2021, she served as a district Judge on the UnitedStates District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson 
was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission 
from 2010 to 2014. Since 2016, she has been a memberof the Harvard Board of Overseers. 

Jackson was born Ketanji Onyika Brown on September 14,1970, in Washington, D.C. Her parents were both graduates 
of historically Black colleges and universities. Her father, 

Johnny Brown, ultimately becamethe chief attorney for the Miami-
Dade County School Board; hermother, Ellery, served as schoolprincipal at New World School ofthe Arts. 

Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida,
and graduated from Miami Palmetto 
Senior High School in 1988.
After high school, Jackson studiedgovernment at Harvard College,
graduating in 1992 with an A.B.
magna cum laudeJackson worked as a staff reporterand researcher for Time magazinefrom 1992 to 1993, then attended 
Harvard Law School, where she was 

a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She gradu-
ated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude. 
In 1996, Jackson married surgeon Patrick G. Jackson, a sixth-
generation Harvard graduate. Jackson is descended from 
delegate to the Continental Congress, Jonathan Jackson, andis related to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of theUnited States, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The couple havetwo daughters. Patrick Jackson's twin brother is the brother-
in-law of Janna Ryan, wife of former Speaker of the HousePaul Ryan. 


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Permanently dedicating more than 30 acres of open space 
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on the City’s northern boundary. 
Map of the proposed plan for The Meadows at Bailey Canyon. 
The historic buildings will continue to be an iconic landmark 
and home to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center and 
its ministries. 
A new 3-acre public park, tucked in next to Bailey Canyon, 
will provide a place to relax, meet neighbors for a walk or 
journey through a meditative labyrinth. 
The Meadows at Bailey Canyon in Sierra Madre is a proposed plan to permanently protect open space, 
preserve the Monastery, provide a new park with direct connection to Bailey Canyon — 
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