The US Senate on Monday confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice, a week prior to the November 3 presidential elections. The Republicans voted her by a 52-48 majority. Barrett is President Donald Trump’s third nominee to reach the top court and has cemented a six-to-three conservative majority.

She was picked by Trump on September 26 as a replacement for liberal and woman’s rights champion justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after her death.

Here is everything to know about Judge Amy Cody Barett:

Appointed for the first time in 2017, Barrett, 48, has served a judge on the seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and is considered a favourite among social conservatives. She is a practicing Catholic and law professor.

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Barrett is the only conservative woman in the Supreme Court. The two other women justices, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are both progressives appointed by former President Barack Obama.

The 48-year-old conservative was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative pillar of the Supreme Court until his death in February 2016. During her clerkship days, she was called “The Conenator” by her colleagues “for destroying flimsy legal arguments,” NPR reported. In law journals, she has professed opinions heavily influenced, according to her critics, by traditional religious values.

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In her three years as a federal judge, Barrett has written over 100 opinions and “several telling dissents in which Barrett displayed her clear and consistent conservative bent,” The Associated Press noted of her judicial record. From guns to abortion and sexual assault on campus to health care, Barrett has shown herself to be a conservative jurist.