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Elena Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ə n / 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.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court justice and the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States. She was born in New York City to a middle-class Jewish family and graduated from Princeton, Oxford and Harvard Law School.
Sep 3, 2021 · Elena Kagan is the first female Solicitor General and an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She was raised Jewish and had a bat mitzvah in an Orthodox synagogue, and she has advocated for justice and equality in various roles.
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). Kagan, the daughter of Robert Kagan, a lawyer, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher, was raised in New York City.
Jun 23, 2021 · Elena Kagan is the second Jewish woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was born in New York to Jewish parents and observes the High Holidays at the same synagogue as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Learn about the life and career of Elena Kagan, the first Supreme Court Justice who had never been a judge before. Find out her ethnicity, education, opinions, and more.
1970 — Present. Elena Kagan grants the court a new perspective, based on her prowess with technology and pop culture. She was born in New York City, New York on April 28, 1960. As the daughter of an elementary school teacher and a housing attorney, she developed an interest in both academics and law at a very young age.
