Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown-Jackson to the Supreme Court. Jackson earned the support of every Senate Democrat, as well as that of Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney. She becomes the first Black woman to serve at the highest level of the Judicial branch of American government.
The poignancy of the moment isn't lost on Constance Slaughter-Harvey, who's a legal trailblazer herself. In 1970, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Mississippi school of law. She went on to become the first Black female judge in the state.