Bay Area leaders and others lauded the U.S. Senate’s vote Thursday to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. senators voted 53-47 to approve Jackson, who will be the first Black woman to serve on the high court and will provide a greater gender balance on the court.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.