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On Thursday, April 7, 2022, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She is the first African American woman to be appointed to serve on the highest court in the land.
Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. Her legal career includes private practice and three clerkships, one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer who announced his retirement last year. Breyer will officially step down at the end of the court's current term that usually closes in late June or July. Jackson will be sworn in to fill his seat on the bench at that time.
From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender and served as vice-chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The Commission amended sentencing guidelines to reduce federal sentences for inequitable crack cocaine offenses and implemented other reforms in sentencing for drug crimes. Nominated by President Barack Obama, Jackson was sworn in as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2013.
Jackson has credited Constance Baker Motley - the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge as one of her sheros. Motley was the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court - winning 9 of the 10 landmark civil rights cases she handled. She also clerked for Thurgood Marshall aiding him in Brown v. Board of Education - the case that desegregated schools in the United States.
Sources: Blackpast.org; King5.com; Wikipedia.org; WhiteHouse.gov
WSDOT Minority and Women Business Enterprise Support Services
The Washington State Department of Transportation’s Minority and Women Business Enterprises Support Services (MWBESS) is a state-funded program providing supportive services and training to people of color, women, and other socially and economically disadvantaged firms. To get started, please click here
For more information about the program or questions of how to receive support, please contact Program Manager Adam Powers, or email WSDOT directly at DBESS@wsdot.wa.gov or call 360-705-7090
Tabor 100 Certification Workshop w/OMWBE
What do you need to know to get certified?
Learn about the benefits of small business certifications, including Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Woman Business Enterprise (WBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), and Small Contractor and Supplier (SCS).
OMWBE representatives will assist attendees with completing the certification application step-by-step. If you have been putting it off, this is your time to get certified. Come with your questions to get assistance from the experts. Feel free to attend one or both sessions!
Both sessions will be available in-person - lunch is sponsored by the Port of Seattle. Please register to attend:
https://bit.ly/T100OMWBE
Thursday, April 14, 2022
10:00am - 12:00pm
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Tabor 100 - 7100 Fort Dent Way, Tukwila, WA 98188
The 19th Annual Seattle Black Film Festival
April 29 - May 1, 2022
The 19th annual Seattle Black Film Festival returns to the halls of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle's historically Black Central District, April 29-May 1. The three-day weekend of in-person and video on demand screenings, panels and events will host an international selection of over forty feature films, music videos, documentaries and short films; showcasing the range and depth of the Black experience on the big screen. Find more information at www.langstonseattle.org
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