Elena Kagan
- An Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
Personal History
Family
- Born April 28, 1960
Education
- 1981 Princeton, B.A. summa cum laude History
- 1983 Worcester College, Oxford, MPhil Politics
- 1986 Harvard Law School, JD magna cum laude
Career
- 1987 Law clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- 1988 Law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court
- 1988 - 1991 Associate at Williams & Connolly
- 1991 Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Law School
- 1993 Special Counsel Senate Judiciary Committee (Worked on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court confirmation hearings
- 1995 Granted tenure as Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
- 1995 - 1996 Associate White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton
- 1997 - 1999 Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
- 1999 Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Nominated by President Bill Clinton, June 17, 1999
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch scheduled no hearing
- Her nomination lapsed once the Senate term ended
- 1999 - 2001 Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School
- 2001 - 2003 Full Professor at Harvard Law School
- 2003 - 2009 Dean of Harvard Law School
- 2005 - 2008 Member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute
- 2009 - 2010 US Solicitor General
- 2010 - present United States Supreme Court
- Nominated by President Barack Obama, May 10, 2010
- Confirmed on August 5, 2010 (63-37)
- Sworn in on August 7, 2010
- Replaced John Paul Stevens
Attorney in:
Supreme Court
- Nominated by Barack Obama
- Began serving/took oath August 7, 2010
Supreme Court decisions:
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (Sided with Majority)
- Murphy v. NCAA (was Christie v. NCAA) (Sided with Majority)
- Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 US_ (2015) (Sided with Majority)
- Packingham v. North Carolina (Sided with Majority)
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (Writer of concurring opinion)
- Epic Systems v. Lewis (2016) (Sided with dissenting opinion)
- Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 2 (2013) (Sided with dissenting opinion)
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