Senate confirmation hearings got underway on Monday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. In some ways, Judge Jackson has had similar path to the Supreme Court as several other sitting justices, including being a Supreme Court clerk. It is an experience shared by 6 of the 9 current justices and one that Judge Jackson addressed in her opening statement when she thanked retiring Justice Breyer for the experience of serving as his clerk.According to a report by the National Law Journal, from 2005 to 2017, 85 percent of Supreme Court clerks were white, and two thirds were male. To help us understand a little more about clerking, and how we’re slowly moving towards a federal judiciary that is more diverse in various ways, we spoke to Cecillia Wang, Deputy Legal Director at the National ACLU and director of the Center for Democracy, and Cecillia clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun (working in the chambers of Justice Stephen G. Breyer) from 1996-1997.