The most junior Supreme Court member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, is finally in the iconic portrait of the nine-member bench following her first week of oral arguments.
The Supreme Court has kept its tradition of taking a photo of the justices standing and sitting in order of seniority since 1867. For years, the court has agreed to only take a group photo when a new justice is appointed to the bench.
“Since 1941, the group photograph has been taken in the Supreme Court Building, which helped standardize it even further. All of the visual elements familiar today fell into place when the first officially approved group photograph was taken, in color, in 1965,” the Supreme Court notes on its webpage.
The new photo depicts the last four justices nominated to the Supreme Court standing behind the most senior justices, who are sitting alongside Chief Justice John Roberts. Jackson is seen standing next to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, former President Donald Trump’s second of three high court nominees.
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Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden to succeed retired Justice Stephen Breyer earlier this year, is the first black woman on the high court and helped set the record for the most number of female justices on the high court at the same time, which is now at four.
Senators voted 53-47 to confirm Jackson earlier this year, notably earning the votes of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
