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    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.

    Born in New York City on April 28, , Elena Kagan is the daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, a school teacher. Kagan’s father represented the rights of tenants in the city’s many co-op conversions and her mother was known as a demanding but dedicated teacher at Hunter College Elementary School. Their work in law and education inspired Kagan’s future career path, as well as that of her two brothers, who are both school teachers.

    Kagan was raised Jewish and her family belonged to Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A top student at her Hebrew school, she strongly desired to mark her coming of age with a bat mitzvah when she was 12 years old. However, her Orthodox synagogue had never held a bat mitzvah, as only

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    Elena Kagan

    US Supreme Court justice since

    This article is about the U.S. Supreme Court justice. For the Russian writer with the same birth name, see Elena Rzhevskaya.

    Elena Kagan

    Official portrait,

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    August 7,
    Nominated byBarack Obama
    Preceded byJohn Paul Stevens
    In office
    March 19, &#;– May 17,
    PresidentBarack Obama
    DeputyNeal Katyal[1]
    Preceded byEdwin Kneedler[2] (acting)
    Succeeded byNeal Katyal[1] (acting)
    In office
    July 1, &#;– March 19,
    Preceded byRobert Clark
    Succeeded byMartha Minow
    In office
    –
    PresidentBill Clinton
    Preceded byJeremy Ben-Ami[3]
    Succeeded byEric Liu[4]
    Born () April 28, (age&#;64)
    New York City, U.S.
    Political partyDemocratic[5]
    Education
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    Elena Kagan (KAY-guhn; born April 28, ) is an American lawyer who serves as an asso

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    Elena Kagan (present)

    Recent Decisions by Justice Kagan

    Biographical Data

    Birth, Residence, and Family
    Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court was born in New York, New York, on April 28,
    Education
    She received an A.B., summa cum laude, in from Princeton University. She attended Worcester College, Oxford University, as Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in In , she earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.
    Government service
    She served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from She served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States during the Term. From , she was associate counsel to President Clinton and then served as deputy assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Co