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July 1, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn In as First Black Women Supreme Court Justice
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Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as the 116th justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court - and the first Black woman to hold the position in
the court's 233-year history. At a noon ceremony, Chief Justice John
Roberts administered Jackson a constitutional oath. She then took a
judicial oath administered by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom
Jackson clerked after she graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996.


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