ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH –Sixty-five law professors representing all four Missouri law schools signed onto a letter this week backing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. “Judge Jackson’s record of intellectual accomplishment, practical experience, and public service is among the most distinguished of any Supreme Court nominee in recent memory,” the attorneys wrote in a letter Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the panel. The letter, provided to the Post-Dispatch on Thursday evening, came as Republicans, including Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, grilled Jackson during her four-day confirmation hearing this week. Those who signed on include Michael Middleton, deputy chancellor emeritus and professor emeritus of law at the University of Missouri. Middleton rose to the top of the University of Missouri System, serving as interim president in the wake of racial injustice protests at the Columbia campus in 2015.