Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Given One-Night Chance To Fulfill A Lifelong Dream
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The former theater student-turned-top legal scholar will complete what they have described as a lifelong fantasy.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is about to hit another high note in her illustrious career.
The Supreme Court justice will make her one-night-only Broadway debut in the musical comedy “& Juliet” on Saturday, it was announced this week.
The former theater student-turned-top legal scholar will appear in the New York City production at 8 p.m. and take questions after, completing what she’s described as a lifelong fantasy.
As she wrote in her new memoir, “Lovely One,” she “dreamed” as a child of not only one day taking a seat on the nation’s highest court but also performing on one of the world’s highest commercial stages.
“I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land — and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays [to Harvard University],” she wrote in the memoir, according to Deadline. “I expressed that I wished to attend Harvard as I believed it might help me ‘to fulfill my fantasy of becoming the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.’”
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