CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sandra Day O’Connor will always be known as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, but her impact reaches much further than that. O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas on March 26, 1930. She spent her childhood on the Lazy B, her family’s ranch in Arizona.

Detailed explanation-3: -Her left hand rests on two bibles held by her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was in 2013 when the top court had an all-woman bench when Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai sat together. At present, the apex court has only three women judges: Justices Kohli, B V Nagarathna, and Trivedi. Justice B V Nagarthana will become Chief Justice of India in 2027 for 36 days.