Professor Lisa Fairfax introduced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 21 at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court.
Fairfax is a professor and co-director at the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She’s also a former roommate of Jackson’s at Harvard University.
“There’s so much more to Ketanji beyond her brilliant mind. There’s her wonderful sense of humor, her gift of storytelling, her heart of gold that always shows up, from the first call you make for advice about your career to the first knock you hear on the door after learning you’re diagnosed with cancer,” Fairfax said.
“You never have to ask; she is always there. Above all, Ketanji is humble enough not to pretend she knows how to have it all, but she does know how to give it her all. And what she gives to her family, her friends, she also gives to the law and to this country," she added.
Jackson was nominated by President Joe Biden in February to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman on the high court.

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