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Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. [1] [2] She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida.
Samuel Steinfeld, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky (1972–1975) [151] Jacob Tanzer, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (1980–1982) [152] Richard B. Teitelman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (2011–2013), Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri (2002–2016) [153]
Luis A. Gonzalez: [56] First Puerto Rican male to serve as the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department in New York (2009) Anil Singh: [57] First South Asian American male to serve as a Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department in New York (2017)
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The court’s newest justice and first Black woman participated in oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies.
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[4] [73] Clinton was reportedly looking to increase the Court's diversity, which Ginsburg did as the first Jewish justice since the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas. She was the second female and the first Jewish female justice of the Supreme Court. [4] [74] [75] She eventually became the longest-serving Jewish justice. [76]
First Jewish American male: Daniel Nunez in 1722 [4] First Jewish American male (New Jersey Supreme Court): Samuel Kalisch in 1911 [5] First Italian American male: Themistocles Mancusi-Ungaro in 1914 [6] First African American male: Roger M. Yancey in 1960 [7] [8] First Latino American male: John Joseph (J.) Dios in 1976 [9] [10] [11]