WASHINGTON The Senate confirmed President Joe Bidens 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday, a significant milestone both in terms of the number of lifetime federal judges he has confirmed and the unprecedented diversity hes infused into the nations courts.

With the Senates confirmation of Angela Martinez to a U.S. district court in Arizona, Biden surpassed the number of lifetime federal judges that Donald Trump had confirmed by the same point in his presidency. Trump, who made judicial confirmations a major focus of his presidency , was at 196 at this point in his presidency.

It is the diversity of Bidens judges, though, that really jumps out. He has put more women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and professionally diverse people into lifetime federal judgeships than any of his predecessors, and in some cases, more than any of them combined.

Nearly two-thirds of Bidens judges are women (127), and nearly two-thirds are people of color (125). About 40% of Bidens judges are women of color (79).

To put this into some context: A total of 3,254 white men have served on the Supreme Court, appeals courts or district courts since the U.S. federal court system was created in 1789, according to the Federal Judicial Center.

In all that time, 416 judges have been white women, and 565 have been people of color. Just 197 have been women of color.

The professional diversity of Bidens judges is also off the charts. More than 40% of them (85) have backgrounds as public defenders or civil rights lawyers a huge break from the centuries-long tradition of plucking people for federal judgeships from their jobs as prosecutors or corporate attorneys.

When you walk into a courtroom and your freedom and your business and your familys interests are at stake, youd like to look up there and see a judge that you believe really understands your way of life, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said at a press conference with civil rights leaders after the vote.

Biden has ushered in historic firsts for the federal bench, too. He appointed the first openly LGBTQ+ woman to serve on a U.S. appeals court, Judge Beth Robinson of the 2nd Court of Appeals. He appointed the first Muslim American federal judge, Zahid Quraishi, to a U.S. district court. He has appointed four Native American people to lifetime federal judgeships, which is half of all the Native American federal judges appointed in U.S. history.

And, of course, Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman and former public defender to serve on the nations top court.

This is a major milestone, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) celebrated on the Senate floor ahead of Martinezs vote. Simply put, our 200 judges comprise the most diverse slate of judicial nominations under any president in American history.