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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON ON BEING

CONFIRMED TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

     Introduced By: Senators Cano, Mack, Euer, Raptakis, DiMario, Valverde, and DiPalma

     Date Introduced: April 07, 2022

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden put forth the historic nomination

of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States

Supreme Court; and

     WHEREAS, With bipartisan support, Judge Jackson was confirmed on April 7, 2022, to

a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court, a significant step toward making the

Supreme Court more representative of our nation as a whole; and

     WHEREAS, Judge Jackson was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Miami, Florida.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Government from Harvard-

Radcliffe College, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where was

as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review; and

     WHEREAS, In June of 2021, Judge Jackson had received her commission as a United

States Circuit Judge, and had previously served on the United States Court of Appeals for the

District of Columbia. During her tenure on the Court of Appeals, she had issued more than 500

opinions on cases involving myriad issues from separation of powers to the reach of the Fourth

Amendment to collective bargaining rights; and

     WHEREAS, Currently, Judge Jackson is a member of the Judicial Conference

Committee on Defender Services, as well as the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and

the Council of the American Law Institute. She also serves on the board of Georgetown Day

School and the United States Supreme Court Fellows Commission; and

     WHEREAS, Judge Jackson's prior service includes eight years as a federal trial court

judge, Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission, Assistant

Federal Public Defender in the appeals division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in

the District of Columbia, lawyer in private practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP, and as a law

clerk at all three levels of the federal Judiciary; and

     WHEREAS, Judge Jackson is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will join the

court in the summer of 2022. She is an exceptionally well-qualified, experienced, and

credentialed jurist who is committed to equal justice, and whose "evenhanded approach to the

administration of justice make her an outstanding candidate for the Supreme Court"; now,

therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby congratulates the

Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson on being confirmed as the 116th Associate Justice of the

United States Supreme Court. We furthermore extend our best wishes for her continued success,

health and fulfillment; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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