Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire on Thursday...

Jackson, 51, will be sworn as the court's 116th justice, as she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer.

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Stephen Gerald Breyer is an American lawyer and jurist , born in August 15, 1938. White Frame Corner

He has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994

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Ketanji Brown Jackson -- to take his place on the bench, becoming the nation's first Black female justice.

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With Jackson's ascension to the bench, for the first time, white men will not represent the majority of justices on the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after nearly three decades.

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Justice Breyer, 83, is the oldest member of the Supreme Court bench.

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