Ketanji Brown Jackson is a litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP with substantial experience in handling cases on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Ms. Jackson’s practice focuses on appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ms. Jackson worked as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the appeals division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the District of Columbia from 2005 until 2007. Ms. Jackson argued half a dozen cases in the D.C. Circuit, and she authored numerous briefs and a petition for writ of certiorari involving significant issues of criminal law and procedure. Ms. Jackson’s professional experience includes work as an Assistant Special Counsel of the United States Sentencing Commission, where she drafted amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, and as an associate with two boutique law firms, one specializing in white-collar criminal defense, the other focusing on the negotiated settlement of mass-tort claims.
Ms. Jackson received an A.B., magna cum laude, in Government from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she served as a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She also served as a law clerk to three federal judges, including Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States.
