WASHINGTON (AP) – Elected Vice President Kamala Harris will be inaugurated Wednesday by Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor at a historic event in which the first black, South Asian and female vice president will take the oath from the first Latin Justice.
Harris chose Sotomayor for the task, according to a person familiar with the decision. He will also use two Bibles for the office of charge, one of which belonged to Thurgood Marshall, the first judge of the Black Supreme Court.
ABC News reported for the first time on the latest details of Harris’ inaugural plans.
Harris has expressed admiration for both Sotomayor and Marshall. She and Sotomayor share experience as prosecutors, and once called Marshall – as Harris, a graduate of Howard University – one of his “great heroes.”
Said the elected vice president a video posted on Twitter who saw Marshall as “one of the main reasons she wanted to be a lawyer,” who described him as a “fighter” in the courtroom.
And it will be the second time that Sotomayor participates in an inauguration. President-elect Joe Biden was sworn in as vice president in 2013.