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Posted by: Kate Prince on Jun 30, 2022

Kentanji Brown Jackson was today sworn in as the first Black female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Tennessean reports. She replaces retired Justice Stephen Breyer, who yesterday informed President Joe Biden that he would officially retire today, hours after the high court released the last two rulings of its current term. Jackson, a Harvard-trained lawyer and former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was confirmed to the Supreme Court in April on a 53-47 vote by the U.S. Senate. Chief Justice John Roberts administered one oath of office to Jackson and Breyer – for whom Jackson clerked more than 20 years ago – administered the other. With that, Jackson became the 104th associate justice – marking the first time women and people of color outnumber white men on the court.