Ketanji Brown Jackson: Journey to the Supreme Court Unveiled

so help me go she details her journey to the highest court in her Memoir out Tuesday the title lovely one yes that's what your name means it is it is so my aunt was in the Peace Corps in Africa when I was born and my parents really wanted to honor our heritage and asked her to send them a list of African names and they picked that one Lovely One katangi Onika which is my given middle name her her parents John and Ellery Brown grew up in the segregated South but this middleclass Miami couple had high hopes for their daughter I was born within 5 years of the Civil Rights Act the Voting Rights Act so they were like here's our opportunity to um make sure that our daughter can do all the things that we didn't get to do my parents had raised me to believe that I could do anything I wanted to do that was my uh way of thinking about myself