OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has sworn in its first-ever Native American justice and its new chief justice.

Former Whatcom County Superior Court judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis was sworn-in to replace retiring Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst.

She is a member of the Pueblo Iselta tribe of New Mexico and was named to the court by Governor Jay Inslee last month.

Other members of the court elected Debra Stephens to be the court’s 57th chief justice.