After giving birth to her first baby, Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called her return to the legal profession “heartbreaking” and claimed she had “grossly underestimated the challenges of motherhood.”
In her memoir “Lovely One,” which was published on Tuesday, Jackson wrote, “I can honestly say that returning to the office as a young mother and returning to the daily grind and pressures of a large bar was a nightmare for me.”
Ketanji Brown Jackson talks about the difficulties she faces getting to work, taking care of her infant, and having to leave the office every day “at the ungodly hour of 5 p.m.” And after taking a four-month maternity leave, she talks in detail about how lonely and unmotivated she felt when she returned to Goodwin Procter.
Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke frankly about her “mild anxiety” upon starting her first job at a law firm in the sixth month of her pregnancy, which she experienced when she found out she was pregnant in 2000 while working as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
She had gotten a “hefty signature bonus” from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s prominent legal firm in celebration of her accomplishments as a Supreme Court clerk, so the announcement of this “unpleasant news” was especially unsettling.
Jackson was mostly in charge of raising her kids even though she had a full-time babysitter because her husband Patrick had recently started his medical residency.
In her autobiography, which covers her life prior to President Joe Biden’s 2022 nomination to the Supreme Court, 53-year-old Ketanji Brown Jackson is open about the difficulties of being a mother.
Speaking on the challenges her older daughter Talia faces due to her autism, she expresses remorse for not having “understood the true nature of our daughter’s neurological differences” sooner.
“Unfortunately for Talia, her incredibly loving and well-intentioned parents had some blind spots, which were likely brought on by an almost absurdly strong work ethic that Patrick and I had internalised.”
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