The words of Ketanji Brown Jackson after his confirmation 1:01
(CNN) --
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as the Supreme Court's 104th associate justice, becoming the first black woman to serve on the high court.
With her hand on a Bible held by her husband, Jackson took the two oaths required of all new judges.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the Constitutional Oath to him, asking him to swear "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to join a Supreme Court in crisis
Judge Stephen Breyer took the judicial oath.
Reading from a card, Breyer asked him to take an oath "to administer justice" and to do "equal right to the poor and the rich."
At the end of the ceremony, Roberts said he was glad to welcome "Judge Jackson" to the courtroom and to our "common calling."
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Jackson joins the Court as its 116th member at a time of heightened scrutiny of the court for its recent decisions and low confidence of the American public in the Supreme Court.
Amid the search for Breyer's replacement, after President Joe Biden promised to appoint a black woman to the bench, Jackson was a frontrunner among judges and lawyers.
In April, she was confirmed by the Senate 53-47 to the high court after a series of scrutiny hearings, during which Republicans tried to paint her as soft on crime and Democrats praised her judicial record.
During the confirmation hearing, she promised to be fair and biased as a judge in deciding the law.
“I have been a judge for almost a decade and I take that responsibility and my duty to be independent very seriously. I decide cases from a neutral position. I evaluate the facts, and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, in accordance with my judicial oath," he said in his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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