On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 7:00pm, Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. and The Bar Association of the District of Columbia held a special segment titled, "The Victorious K.B.J., Ketanji Brown Jackson, The First Black Woman Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States Poetic Essays" with guest speaker CeLillianne Green to honor and rejoyce K.B.J. and the impact her position holds on the Black community. Judge Williams shared an introduction to the speaker at this prolific event.
CeLillianne Green is an internationally known poet, as well as a lawyer, teacher, playwright, and speaker. She is a graduate of Drexel University and Howard University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Law Journal. She is admitted to the Bar in four states, and her varied legal career includes a federal clerkship, associate at a Wall Street law firm, and work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where she tried cases from misdemeanors to 1st degree murders and argued in appellate courts. She was in private practice several years and is a mediator, trained in various
methods. She also served as Legislative Counsel for a DC Council Member, taught evidence, legal writing, appellate advocacy, and was a consultant to CLEO, an organization which supported disadvantaged law students.
