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Small world moment: Early in my career, 2001-02, I covered the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for The Miami Herald. Johnny Brown was the school board's top attorney. Turns out he is Ketanji Brown Jackson's dad. nytimes.com/2022/01/30/us/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html
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I recall in the summer of 2002, when I was leaving the beat because I had won a journalism fellowship to study law for a year, I asked Johnny Brown for input about what I should study. He suggested an administrative law class. (I didn't take his advice but now kinda wish I had.)