Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson today became the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court, without changing the balance of the conservative-majority body.
The 51-year-old judge was selected in late February by President Joe Biden, who had made a campaign promise to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court for the first time in history.
In the Supreme Court’s 233 years, 115 justices have served on it, and of those, only five have been women – four white and one Hispanic. Only two were African-American judges. One of them, the conservative Clarence Thomas, was nominated by George W. Bush and still serves on the Court today.
Ketanji Brown Jackson will take the place of progressive Stephen Breyer, 83, who has decided to retire.
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