A Korean American has gained tenure as a professor of law at Harvard University.

Earlier this month, the university’s faculty voted to grant tenure to Jeannie Suk, making her the first tenured Asian-American woman at the law school.

After immigrating to the U.S. at the age of six, Suk went on to receive degrees from Yale University, Oxford University and Harvard Law School. Suk joined the law school faculty as an assistant professor in 2006.

After graduating from Harvard, she served as a law clerk to Associate Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.