Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to speak at NC A&T State University
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- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will speak at NC A&T on Sept. 3 at 6 p.m.
- The event is restricted to university students, faculty and staff.
- Jackson’s visit supports her “Lovely One” memoir tour, highlighting her legal journey.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, will speak at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro next month, the university announced Friday.
Jackson will speak at the university — the largest historically Black college or university in the country — on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 6 p.m. The event, to be held in NC A&T’s Harrison Auditorium, is restricted to university students, faculty and staff.
The event is part of Jackson’s tour for her memoir, “Lovely One,” released last year. A No. 1 New York Times bestseller, the book chronicles Jackson’s life growing up in Miami, graduating with her bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard University and ultimately rising to the Supreme Court.
“Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known,” reads the publisher’s description of the memoir. “She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.”
Jackson, 54, was appointed to the Supreme Court by then-President Joe Biden in 2022. Among other positions, she previously served as a U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia and as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Though NC A&T does not have a law school, the university noted Friday that several prominent North Carolina lawyers have come from its alumni base. That includes Henry Frye, a 1953 graduate who became the first Black chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and Elreta Alexander-Ralston, a 1937 graduate who was the state’s first Black woman to practice law and its first elected Black judge.
Jackson is the second Supreme Court justice to visit a North Carolina college in recent years. Chief Justice John Roberts last year spoke at a private event at Duke University honoring the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the court.
This story was originally published August 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM with the headline "Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to speak at NC A&T State University."
