PRIDE OF AFRICA: America's First Black Supreme Court Justice in history, KETANJI ONYIKA BROWN JACKSON is a Nigerian …Born in Washington D.C., parents are American descendants of enslaved Nigerians from West Africa, traced ancestral roots to Ibos in South-East, name 'Ketanji Onyika' translates 'lovely one' in Ibo language *51-year-old served as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, active member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services, Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute *Earlier worked as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, then to judge Bruce M. Selva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit *Outstanding in private practice at Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court *Currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School and the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Commission * 'During the Slave era, African men and women were forced to change their names by slave owners'-INVESTIGATION *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor

PRIDE OF AFRICA: America's First Black Supreme Court Justice in history, KETANJI ONYIKA BROWN JACKSON is a Nigerian …Born in Washington D.C., parents are American descendants of enslaved Nigerians from West Africa, traced ancestral roots to Ibos in South-East, name 'Ketanji Onyika' translates 'lovely one' in Ibo language *51-year-old served as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, active member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services, Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute *Earlier worked as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, then to judge Bruce M. Selva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit *Outstanding in private practice at Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court *Currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School and the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Commission * 'During the Slave era, African men and women were forced to change their names by slave owners'-INVESTIGATION *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor
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