‘We’ve made it’: Emotional Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman to join Supreme Court, touts confirmation as a mark of progress

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (R) host Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (L) for an event celebrating her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House on April 08, 2022 in Washington, DC.

The first black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court on Friday said her rise to the top court was a sign of the country's ideals.

It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

We have made it. She said that all of us have made it.

Jackson was confirmed to the high court by the Senate. Three Republicans supported her nomination.

Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of the court's current term, and will be replaced by a federal judge. Jackson clerked for Breyer, who has served as an associate justice for nearly 28 years.

Jackson will not become a Supreme Court associate justice until later this year, when Justice Stephen Breyer will step down. She needs to take her judicial oath and become a justice.

Jackson will join a court that has grown more conservative following the appointment of three of Donald Trump's nominees. The liberal wing of the court is outnumbered 6-3 by the conservative bloc.

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