Killer Résumé

Are there gaps in your spiritual résumé? God has a plan to fill them.

History was made on June 30, 2022, in Washington, D.C., when Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first African-American woman to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Her résumé for the job was impressive, and her qualifications included:

• A. magna cum laude from Harvard
• D. cum laude from Harvard Law School
• Several years of clerking for federal courts, including the Supreme Court
• Service on the U.S. Sentencing Commission
• Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Justice Jackson’s rapid rise through the federal court system meant that, by the time she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a Supreme Court nominee, she’d already been vetted and confirmed by the Senate no fewer than three times. It’s hard to imagine a stronger résumé.¹

Still, her examination before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was grueling. Many of the senators’ harsh ...