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Vice President Kamala Harris placed a bust of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in her ceremonial office.
The bust of Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, is on loan from the vice president's undergraduate alma mater, Howard University, according to a statement from Harris's office.
"Vice President Harris has pointed to Justice Thurgood Marshall as an inspiration for her professional career as a lawyer," Harris's office said.
The bust was created by Dr. Randolph Craig, a black artist who worked in the University of Maryland Art Department, according to Above the Law.
Marshall was a Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991. Before that, he was solicitor general of the United States and a federal appeals court judge. He died in 1993.
Harris swore in on two Bibles during her inauguration ceremony, one of which belonged to Marshall.
Harris, a U.S. senator and attorney general in California before becoming vice president, explained Marshall's influence on her in remarks given to the National Bar Association.
"I wanted to help people. I wanted to do that. And that was one of the reasons — including Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston and Constance Baker Motley — that I wanted to be a lawyer," she said in July. "I wanted to help people and, in particular, to help remove the barriers that stood in their way — to help people everywhere to defend themselves; to define themselves, as opposed to being defined by others; and to determine their own future. And I know this is something we all share, and it’s what — it’s what still drives us all today."
Vice President Kamala Harris placed a bust of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in her ceremonial office.
The bust of Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, is on loan from the vice president's undergraduate alma mater, Howard University, according to a statement from Harris's office.
"Vice President Harris has pointed to Justice Thurgood Marshall as an inspiration for her professional career as a lawyer," Harris's office said.
The bust was created by Dr. Randolph Craig, a black artist who worked in the University of Maryland Art Department, according to Above the Law.
Marshall was a Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991. Before that, he was solicitor general of the United States and a federal appeals court judge. He died in 1993.
Harris swore in on two Bibles during her inauguration ceremony, one of which belonged to Marshall.
Harris, a U.S. senator and attorney general in California before becoming vice president, explained Marshall's influence on her in remarks given to the National Bar Association.
"I wanted to help people. I wanted to do that. And that was one of the reasons — including Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston and Constance Baker Motley — that I wanted to be a lawyer," she said in July. "I wanted to help people and, in particular, to help remove the barriers that stood in their way — to help people everywhere to defend themselves; to define themselves, as opposed to being defined by others; and to determine their own future. And I know this is something we all share, and it’s what — it’s what still drives us all today."
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