Candace Jackson-Akiwumi

Candace Jackson-Akiwumi
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Assumed office
July 1, 2021
Appointed byJoe Biden
Preceded byJoel Flaum
Personal details
Born
Candace Rae Jackson

1979 (age 44–45)
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
RelativesRaymond Alvin Jackson (father)
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Yale University (JD)

Candace Rae Jackson-Akiwumi (born 1979)[1] is an American attorney who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since July 2021. She was previously a staff attorney at the federal defender program in the Northern District of Illinois from 2010 to 2020 and a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, D.C., from 2020 to 2021.