Elena Kagan

About Elena Kagan

She is the Supreme Court's fourth female justice. President Barack Obama nominated her to succeed John Paul Stevens.

Elena Kagan is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 10, 2010 and has served since August 7, 2010. Kagan is the fourth woman to become a member of the Court. Kagan was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for a federal Court of Appeals judge and for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She began her career as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leaving to serve as Associate White House Counsel, and later as a policy adviser under President Bill Clinton. After a nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which expired without action, she became a professor at Harvard Law School and was later named its first female dean. In 2009, Kagan became the first female solicitor general of the United States.

Education	Princeton University (AB), Worcester College, Oxford (MPhil), Harvard University (JD)
Born	April 28, 1960, New York City, U.S.
Preceded by	John Paul Stevens

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Trivia

She was appointed Solicitor General by President Obama one year before he nominated her for the Supreme Court.

Elena Kagan before fame

In the early 1980s, she moved to Oxford to study philosophy and earned a Master of Philosophy.

Achievement of Elena Kagan

President Barack Obama appointed her to the position of Solicitor General a year before nominating her to the Supreme Court.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

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Elena Kagan family life

She grew raised as the middle child in her family. Her father worked as an attorney, and her mother as a teacher.

Associations of Elena Kagan

She carried on the heritage of Sandra Day O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female justice, who was nominated in 1981.

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