Welcome, Pod Squad Squad. We have a very, very, very special treat for you today. We are joined in this podcast by none other than Justice Katae Brown Jackson. She received her undergraduate

and law degrees both with honors from Harvard University, served as a law clerk

for three federal judges, practiced law in the private sector as a law

and the private sector as Commissioner to the U.S. Sentencing Commission

and as an assistant federal public defender.

President Obama nominated Justice Jackson to the U.S. District Court for the District of

Columbia, elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in

2021. Justice Jackson made history in 2022 when President Biden nominated her as an

Associate Justice, one of only 115 people in history to have that job and the only black woman ever to have that job, she was

confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States and took her seat on July 30, 2022.

Her new memoir, Lovely One, is available today

and it is absolutely beautiful and very special. And thank you for having giving us your time today I

know it's precious and you don't have it to give so thank you. I am delighted to

be here thank you so much and thank you for that lovely introduction.

My goodness. Your story is just swirling in our heads right now and it's so beautiful and I've been we were talking about kind of the themes of your life that we're so excited to talk about today and it's this story of just

undistracted striving just your whole the whole way through at every aspect and

then this like really fascinating inquiry into expectations like of every round with your family

your family you're born into the family you're you're making and I'm just let's let's do it all okay let us begin.

We'd love to start with the story about that dramatic day at the pool.

Yes. When you were young? Yes.

And what happened in that moment?

Yes. Well, gosh, I was young. I was in probably either mid to late elementary school and I had

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