  We describe the observed light-baryon spectrum by extending superconformal
quantum mechanics to the light front and its embedding in AdS space. This
procedure uniquely determines the confinement potential for arbitrary
half-integer spin. To this end, we show that fermionic wave equations in AdS
space are dual to light-front supersymmetric quantum mechanical bound-state
equations in physical space-time. The specific breaking of conformal invariance
explains hadronic properties common to light mesons and baryons, such as the
observed mass pattern in the radial and orbital excitations, from the spectrum
generating algebra. The holographic embedding in AdS also explains distinctive
and systematic features, such as the spin-$J$ degeneracy for states with the
same orbital angular momentum, observed in the light baryon spectrum.
