![]() ![]() In nominating Jackson, President Biden said, “For too long, our government, our courts haven’t looked like America. She is the first former federal public defender to serve on the Court and the first justice since Thurgood Marshall’s appointment in 1967 to have any significant experience representing indigent defendants in criminal cases. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jackson, the 116th justice of the Court, was elevated to the Court by President Joe Biden from her position as a judge on the U.S. Justice Breyer, for whom Justice Jackson served as a law clerk during the Court’s 1999-2000 term, then administered the Judicial Oath. In an historic ceremony at the Supreme Court shortly after the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer took effect at noon on June 30, 2022, Chief Justice John Roberts administered the Constitutional Oath to Justice Jackson (pictured). Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice in the 232-year history of the Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. ![]()
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