Lovely One
By Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Random House (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9780593729908
Lovely One is a memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, published by Random House in September 2024. It chronicles her Miami upbringing, her legal career and her 2022 appointment as the first Black woman on the Court. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Before she was the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson was a public-school debater in Miami, the daughter of educators who told her she could do anything. Lovely One - a translation of her given name - traces that ascent with warmth and deliberate care, from Harvard to the federal bench to her 2022 confirmation. Jackson writes candidly about the double standards she navigated and the family life she guarded, balancing institutional history with intimate detail. intendle recommends it as an inspiring civic document, especially for young readers weighing what ambition and public service can look like. A #1 New York Times bestseller and a best book of the year for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review, it is measured rather than combative - the memoir of someone accustomed to making her case in writing. Dignified, generous and quietly historic.