The Atlanta Lawyer March/April 2022 Vol. 20, No. 5 | Page 10

IN THE PROFESSION
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New Beginnings

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Historic U . S . Supreme Court Associate Justice .
The Atlanta Lawyer ’ s theme is New Beginnings , and here we salute the historic selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African- American woman confirmed to the United States Supreme Court . Making her the 116th Associate Justice , the U . S . Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on April 7 , 2022 . Jackson is a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years experience on the federal bench . Once sworn in , Jackson will be the second youngest member of the Court . She will be just the third African-American Justice , after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas , and the sixth woman justice ever to serve the Court . Jackson joins three other women currently on the Court , Sonia Sotomayor , Elena Kagan , and Amy Coney Barrett - four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history . Jackson will be sworn in as an Associate Justice after Justice Stephen Breyer retires at the end of the Court ' s term , which is expected to be sometime in Summer 2022 .
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