Watch live: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in to the Supreme Court

By VPM

Published June 30, 2022 at 11:05 AM EDT

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson poses in front of a wooden bookcase — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will be sworn in as the court’s 116th justice at noon Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. (File photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associate Press)

Moments after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer officially retires on Thursday, Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as the next justice. Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court.

The ceremony will begin at noon Thursday.

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