US Senate confirms Ketanji Jackson as first black woman Justice of the Supreme Court.

The US Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black woman to serve as Justice of the Supreme Court.

The US senate voted 53-47 with three Republicans – Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney adding their votes to Democrats.

A report on Reuters says of the 115 people who have served on the Supreme Court since its 1789 founding, all but three have been white. It has had two Black justices, both men: Clarence Thomas, appointed in 1991 and still serving, and Thurgood Marshall, who retired in 1991 and died in 1993. Current Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the only Hispanic ever to serve.

Jackson will become the sixth woman justice ever. For the first time, four women will serve on the court together.