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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.
Elena Kagan is a Supreme Court justice and the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States of America.
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).
How long has Elena Kagan been a Supreme Court Justice? Kagan began her service on the court in 2010. By the end of 2022, she will have been a justice for 12 years.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it.
WASHINGTON – The day before Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to take the seat next to hers at the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Elena Kagan publicly fretted over the institution's future.
Elena Kagan has served as associate justice of the Supreme Court since 2010. The previous year she served as U.S. solicitor general, the first woman to hold that position. Between 2003 and 2009, Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School. During her tenure she led a reform of the curriculum, an expansion of the faculty, […]
The Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders. Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan got to the Court, including her education, career, and confirmation process.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar, only second Senate-confirmed woman to serve as solicitor general — Justice Elena Kagan was the first — will represent the Justice Department before the court.
Elena Kagan was confirmed as the 45th Solicitor General of the United States in March 2009. Prior to her confirmation, Elena Kagan was the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School.