NEWSWEEK — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to begin her Supreme Courtconfirmation hearings on Monday. If confirmed, it will not only mark the first time the court seats a Black female justice, but also the first time two Black justices have served at the same time. While the Harvard graduate’s confirmation wouldn’t shift the ideological balance of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority, it is her experience as a public defender, in addition to her race, that students think will allow her to shape the future of the Supreme Court. While Justice Clarence Thomas has served on the high court since 1991, some Black law students said they have yet to feel represented. They hope Jackson will change that. “I haven’t felt as though he necessarily speaks for me or for most of the Black people I know,” Harvard law student Robert Clinton told Newsweek. “In some ways, it feels like this is finally having Black representation on the court from someone who seemingly is more aligned with the perspective of most of the Black people that I know.”