Delivering emotional remarks on the sunny White House South Lawn and embracing a history-making moment Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America.

And a day after the Senate approved her nomination, she maintains it is a development the entire country could be proud of.

Jackson will take the bench later this year, filling the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed American segregation.

President Joe Biden, who made his own history by nominating her stood by her side for Friday's event, celebrating her confirmation as “a moment of real change in American history.”