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Elena Kagan's Biography

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Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, Northeast
Washington, DC 20543

Full Name:

Elena Kagan

Gender:

Female

Birth Date:

04/28/1960

Birth Place:

New York, NY

JD, Harvard Law School, 1986

MPhil, Worcester College, Oxford University, 1983

AB, Princeton University, 1981

No political experience information on file.

Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 2010-present

Professor, Harvard Law School, 2001-present

Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, 2009-2010

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, August 5, 2010

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, May 10, 2010

Dean, Harvard Law School, 2003-2009

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, January 26, 2009

Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 1999-2001

Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1997-1999

Nominated, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, June 17, 1999

Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1997

Associate Counsel to the President, Executive Office of the President, 1995-1996

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1994

Special Counsel, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, 1993

Associate, Williams and Colmolly, 1989-1991

Law Clerk, Honorable Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court, 1987-1988

Law Clerk, Honorable Abner Mikva, United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, 1986-1987

Research Assistant, Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School, 1986

Summer Associate, Paul Weiss Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, 1985

Summer Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson, 1984

Paralegal, Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy, 1983

Member, Board of Directors, Equal Justice Works, 2008-present

Member, Board of Trustees, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008-present

Member, Board of Directors, The Advantage Testing Foundation, 2007-present

Member, Board of Advisors, National Constitution Center's Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, 2006-present

Member, Board of Directors, American Law Deans Association, 2004-present

Member, Board of Trustees, Skadden Fellowship Foundation, 2003-present

Member, American Bar Association, present

Member, Harvard Law School Alumni Association, present

Member, Princeton University Alumni Association, present

Former Member, Boston Bar Association Diversity Task Force

Member, Advisory Board, American Indian Empowerment Fund, 2008

Member, New York State Commission on Higher Education, 2007-2008

Member, Research Advisory Council, Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, 2005-2008

Member, Board of Directors, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, 2003-2005

Member, Litigation Committee, American Association of University Professors, 2002-2003

Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1994-1995

Member, Board of Governors, Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1993-1995

Staff Member, Dukakis for President Campaign, 1988

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