Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as the newest United States Supreme Court associate judge
AGN.News Team
June 30, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – The United States Supreme Court just added its newest member and the first Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the court today at 12:12 pm.
Washington is home to Ketanji Brown Jackson. Born in Washington, D.C. (September 14, 1970), and raised in Miami, Florida, Judge Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female justice to be confirmed by the Senate to be an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in its 233-year history, the U.S. Supreme Court, after being confirmed, will have Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson join the nine-member court in a history-making occasion.
At Harvard, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. As an accomplished attorney, she began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she will have when see joins the court.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an associate justice-appoint of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Jackson received Senate confirmation on April 7, 2022, with all 50 members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans voting in favor of the nomination, and 47 Republicans voting against. She will be on the court when it starts its 2022 fall term.
UPDATE: Ketanji Brown Jackson, on Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 12:12 pm, was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, officially making her the nation’s first Black woman to serve in the role. She will fill the seat being vacated by the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, who swore her in and who previously announced his departure after nearly 28 years on the bench took effect Thursday at noon.
According to a Federal Judicial Center database analyzed by the Pew Research Center, only 70 of the 3,843 people who’ve ever served as federal judges in the United States have been Black women.
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American man to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
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