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Elena Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən / KAY-guhn; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court. Kagan was born and raised in New York City.
Apr 2, 2014 · Elena Kagan is a Supreme Court justice and the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States of America.
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May 9, 2024 · Elena Kagan (born April 28, 1960, New York, New York, U.S.) associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2010. She also was the first woman to serve as U.S. solicitor general (2009–10).
Sep 3, 2021 · The first female Solicitor General of the United States and now an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan is a prominent legal scholar and jurist who has advocated for justice and equality since childhood.
Jan 2, 2020 · Elena Kagan is one of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices , and only the fourth woman to hold a position on the nation's highest court since its first session in 1790. She was nominated to the court in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama, who described her as “one of the nation’s foremost legal minds.”.
Justice Elena Kagan joined the U.S. Supreme Court on August 7, 2010, replacing Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan was born in New York City on April 28, 1960 to descendants of Russian immigrants.
ELENA KAGAN, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960. She received an A.B., summa cum laude, in 1981 from Princeton University. She attended Worcester College, Oxford University, as Princeton’s Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in 1983.
