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Elena Kagan
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Elena Kagan

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Serving on the US Supreme Court

Solicitor general · Supreme Court opinions

Born
28 April 1960
Birthplace
New York City

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Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan’s career moved between legal scholarship, presidential administration and the Supreme Court. Before her appointment as a justice, she led Harvard Law School and served as US solicitor general.

Early life

Legal education

Grew up in New York and studied at Princeton, Oxford and Harvard before clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Career

  1. 2003

    Harvard dean

    Became the law school’s first woman dean.

  2. 2009

    Solicitor general

    Became the first woman to hold the office.

  3. 2010

    Supreme Court

    Joined the Court after Senate confirmation.

Selected work

Solicitor general

Represented the federal government before the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court opinions

Has written majority opinions and dissents across the Court’s docket.

Beyond work

Family

Her father was a lawyer and her mother a teacher; both her brothers also became teachers.

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Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.