Her husband rocks historic socks: Fashion statement at Judge Jackson’s Senate hearing

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband, Patrick Jackson, has been seated behind her left side throughout Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, at times smiling, wiping away tears or leaning forward toward his wife.

Between breaks, they walk together to and from a set of rooms behind a marble wall bearing a United States Senate seal, during the hours-long hearings over President Joe Biden’s pick for the Supreme Court.

The couple have a few people escorting them — and, when looking closely, you’ll see that a couple of them are fairly famous politicians.

Just as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has worn brightly colored suit coats before the senators on the Judiciary Committee, her husband has donned colorful socks with the faces of former presidents and thinkers.

On Monday, Patrick Jackson was accompanied by a twin set of George Washingtons, overlaid on blue stockings.

He followed the first president with a set of Benjamin Franklins in the color of — you guessed it — $100-bill green on Tuesday.

And on Wednesday, he had two John F. Kennedys outlined on a pale-red pair of socks.

If his socks come as this set, Patrick Jackson has a few choices for his wife’s final day of hearings on Thursday: Will Abraham Lincoln hear the last word?

Judge Jackson’s husband has been with her through thick and thin of hearings that, at times, have gotten tense with questions about her sentencing in child pornography cases and previous briefs that she wrote as a lawyer in private practice.

Regularly, Patrick Johnson has placed Judge Jackson’s thermos on the table for her where she receives questions as she sits down after breaks. Then he takes the seat behind her left side, which causes his pant legs to rise enough for the former famous politicians to watch history.

This story was originally published March 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM.