History was made Thursday as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first female Black justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Back in Central Florida, one teacher took the confirmation process and turned it into a learning experience for her students. 

At Lake Mary High School, far from Washington D.C., another confirmation took place. It is an exercise constitutional law teacher Lucy Duffey used to help her students understand what it feels like to be part of the process of confirming a justice to the nation’s highest court. 

“You don’t just have to take that answer and let it sit, because they are not just letting them sit," said  Duffey, addressing her students as they started their hearing. "Remember, this is a tough, grueling process this is not just a job interview at Starbucks, they are digging in deep.” 

For the last 24 years, Duffey has taught this exercise every time a new supreme court justice is nominated. This time, some of her students put themselves in Jackson's shoes, while the others come up with tough questions, as if they were the senators on the Judiciary Committee. 

“The way kids learn is by being involved, and I want them to think of themselves as being a judge or being in the Senate," Duffey said. "And that is what I really care about, is getting them involved in that constitutional process."

This particular confirmation hearing is different than any one Duffey has taught before because Jackson's confirmation made her the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. 

“It helps by really giving that idea that this is a court that is well representative of what America actually looks like, and the people that live here,” said Duffey. 

By learning the process and seeing themselves as part of it, Duffey said she hopes it will open her students' eyes to what is possible for them.

“This is a really big deal to be nominated to the Supreme Court and I want these students to think of themselves as being capable to do anything in law that they want to do," she said. 

Friday, Duffey is taking several of her students to Tallahassee, where they will get to participate in mock trials at the Florida Supreme Court as part of the Youth in Government Program.