EDUCATION

Jackson Touts ‘Survivor’ TV Show for Life Lessons to AU Law Grads

By James Wright WI Staff Writer

U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used the popular television show “Survivor” to illustrate lessons in life for over five hundred graduates of American University’s Washington College of Law on May 20 at Bender Arena in Northwest with an audience of nearly 1,000 people.

“I watch it [Survivor] with my husband and my daughters even now, which I will admit it’s not easy to do with the demands of my day job,” Jackson, 52, said. “But you have to set priorities, people. And that’s exactly the first lesson that I have for you today.”

Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the high court. President Biden nominated Jackson on February 25, 2022, and received U.S. Senate confirmation on April 7 of that year. Jackson’s commencement address to the American University law school is her first as a justice of the Supreme Court. Roger A. Fairfax Jr., the law school’s dean,