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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