The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court with a 63-to-27 vote. Kagan will become the fourth female Supreme Court justice in US history and the third on the Court’s current bench. She will also be the first new justice in nearly four decades without any prior judicial experience and, at fifty years old, the Court’s youngest member. At the White House, President Obama called Kagan’s confirmation “a sign of progress.”

President Obama: “I am confident that Elena Kagan will make an outstanding Supreme Court justice. And I’m proud also of the history we’re making with her appointment.”

Chief Justice John Roberts will swear Kagan in on Saturday.