Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson shares insights into her personal story that has already earned her a place in history in her new memoir, released Tuesday.

Jackson recalls sinking into her chair as an appellate judge — her blood “was like the roaring ocean in my ears” — when President Joe Biden called in early 2022 to say he was nominating her to the Supreme Court, clearing the way for her to become the first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.

“From my perspective, my rise to the top of my legal career was truly groundbreaking, the culmination of a life spent toiling in relative obscurity marked by my sudden thrust into the blazing spotlight of national fame,” Jackson writes in his book, “Lovely One.”

She added: “For many, my place at the table symbolizes the fulfillment of the highest ideals of our country, a land that promises opportunity and equality for all.”

Jackson, who turns 54 this month, joined the Supreme Court two years ago and has already established herself as a thoughtful questioner, a prolific opinion writer and a credible voice for the court’s liberal wing. Biden’s first and only nominee, Jackson replaced Justice Stephen Breyer, to whom she once clerked.

In the coming days, Jackson will travel the country to promote the memoir, speaking at sold-out theaters and public libraries. This week, she will speak in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami.

Her memoir doesn’t delve into the law or the behind-the-scenes of the Supreme Court. Instead, it tells the story of a modern family—specifically, a modern mother—balancing a demanding career with a young family, including a daughter diagnosed at age 11 with mild autism spectrum disorder.

Jackson talks about impossible commutes and the stress of childcare, parent-teacher conferences that don’t go as planned, and stolen naps in Safeway parking lots due to exhaustion.

But she also focuses on her personal and professional successes, including her relationship with her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson, a distinguished surgeon; the diagnosis that helped her oldest daughter thrive; and her nomination to serve as a U.S. District Court judge in the Obama administration.

The book presents a personal, relatable story from a distinguished justice, presented at a time when the Supreme Court as an institution is under scrutiny for numerous ethics scandals and politically motivated rulings on abortion, guns, and presidential immunity.

The book’s title is a reference to the name Jackson. Chosen by her parents from a list provided by an influential aunt, “Ketanji Onyika,” they were told, meant “Lovely” in an African dialect.

“Growing up, the sound of my name often reminded me of my aunt,” Jackson writes. “And when people told me my name was unique, creative, and beautiful, I thought of it as a tribute to the woman who gave it to me.”

“Whose Story” Matters?

Born in Washington, D.C., in 1970, Jackson attributes her good fortune, at least in part, to timing. She grew up at the dawn of the post-civil rights era, in a family that made her aware of the significance of that moment for African Americans. Jackson not only seized that opportunity, but also focused on addressing the challenges that came her way.

“I understood from the beginning that my learning curve as a district court judge would be the steepest I had ever faced,” she writes of becoming a federal judge in 2013. “I intended to be impeccable as I climbed the ranks.”

At least some of the landmark anti-discrimination laws Jackson cites in her book, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, are currently being challenged in the Supreme Court. During Jackson’s first term on the court, a majority of her colleagues banned race from being considered in an effort to ensure diversity on college campuses. Jackson dissented in one of those cases and recused herself in another, involving Harvard College, because she had previously served on the school’s board of trustees.

The memoir is being published by Random House just weeks before the Supreme Court’s new term begins in October, which will include cases on transgender rights, ghost guns and federal regulation of e-cigarettes. Jackson has reported receiving nearly $894,000 from Random House last year, though that’s likely just the first of many payments.

While justices often publish memoirs after at least a few years on the court, Jackson’s book hit stores just two years after she took her seat — far quicker than any of her colleagues’ recent books. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have also announced publishing deals, and Justice Neil Gorsuch published his own book earlier this summer.

While she briefly touches on general legal controversies — such as those involving criminal convictions — Jackson avoids mentioning cases before the court. At one point, she appears to question the way some of her colleagues focus on history in their rulings.

“Whose history,” he asks, is taken into account in these analyses?

“It’s true that not everyone was represented at the table when our country was born or when our vaunted Constitution was crafted,” he writes. “But the principles of freedom and equality that the Framers embraced and that are now recognized as the foundation of our society mean that every citizen can enter these rooms today, protected by laws that recognize the civil liberties and human rights of all Americans.”

Diagnosis brings relief

Jackson writes extensively about her older daughter, Talia, who is academically gifted but has sometimes struggled with social interactions and school transitions. After years of dealing with what Jackson describes as “total trauma,” her daughter was diagnosed with autism.

“There’s no point pretending we weren’t absolutely devastated by the long-awaited confirmation of what I suspected all along: that our oldest child is on the autism spectrum,” Jackson writes. At the same time, Jackson described the news as something of a relief.

“We can end our denial,” he writes.

“As Talia learned to advocate for herself over the years, she would educate us that she was not ‘autistic’ but rather autistic—by which she meant that her autism was an identity as much as her being black and female,” Jackson writes. “Autism was another way she saw the world, fully aware of her strengths and fully aware of her trials.”

Thinking about its place in history, Jackson writes that the framers of the Constitution likely could not have anticipated its story—its struggles and, ultimately, its successes.

“I doubt very much that any of them could have imagined me, the descendant of enslaved Africans, the offspring of Jim Crow parents, and the daughter of a civil rights activist, putting on a borrowed robe to take the judicial oath and join the ranks of this venerable branch of government,” Jackson writes. “But that is the genius of the fundamental guarantee of liberty and justice for all that the framers of the Constitution established.”

CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this report.

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