The U.S. Senate has just voted to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States, making her the third woman to sit on the current High Court, and the fourth woman ever to serve.
According to CBS News, nearly all Democrats, the Senate’s two independents and a handful of Republicans supported the nomination.
Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general is a former dean of the Harvard Law School who also served in the Clinton White House.
When she’s sworn in, she will join Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor — the only time three women have sat on the Supreme Court concurrently.
