Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is engaged on a memoir. Jackson, the primary Black lady appointed to the court docket, is looking the e book “Lovely One.”
“Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson stated in an announcement launched Thursday by Random House.
“But the path was paved by courageous women and men in whose footsteps I placed my own, road warriors like my own parents, and also luminaries in the law, whose brilliance and fortitude lit my way. This memoir marries the public record of my life with what is less known. It will be a transparent accounting of what it takes to rise through the ranks of the legal profession, especially as a woman of color with an unusual name and as a mother and a wife striving to reconcile the demands of a high-profile career with the private needs of my loved ones.”
No launch date has been set for “Lovely One.” Jackson, 52, was born Ketanji Onyika Brown. The e book’s title comes from the English translation of Ketanji Onyika, the title advised by an aunt who on the time was a Peace Corps employee in West Africa.
Jackson joined the court docket final 12 months after President Joe Biden named her to succeed the retiring Stephen Breyer. She had beforehand been a choose on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
“My hope is that the fullness of my journey as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, litigator, and friend will stand as a testament for young women, people of color, and dreamers everywhere,” Jackson added, “especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and believe in the possibility of achieving them.”
“Lovely One” is Jackson’s first e book, however not the primary by a present member of the Supreme Court. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor are amongst those that have launched books in recent times. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a take care of the Penguin Random House imprint Sentinel.
Financial phrases for “Lovely One” weren’t disclosed, though curiosity in her makes it doubtless her advance is at the least corresponding to the 7-figure offers negotiated prior to now for memoirs by Sotomayor and Justice Clarence Thomas.
In saying Jackson’s e book, Random House known as it a narrative she tells with “refreshing honesty, lively wit, and warmth.”
“Justice Jackson invites readers into her life and world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her,” the announcement reads partly, “from growing up in Miami with educator parents who broke barriers during the 1960s to honing her voice as an oratory champion to performing improv and participating in pivotal student movements at Harvard to balancing the joys and demands of marriage and motherhood while advancing in Big Law — and, finally, to making history upon joining the nation’s highest court.”
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