Ketanji Brown Jackson’s background is unusual for a Supreme Court nominee. It involves Miami

MIAMI — As an exceptional student and formidable debater at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Ketanji Brown Jackson could have chosen a variety of career paths but she already knew exactly what she wanted to do. “I want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment,” she was quoted in the 1988 Palmetto High yearbook Echo, in a prescient piece naming her to the graduation class Hall of Fame. She’s now on President Joe Biden’s short list for the pinnacle of all judicial appointments — a historic nomination that could make her the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Black female justice. But ...