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Kagan's Harvard colleagues and friends have characterized her as a good conversationalist, warm, with a good sense of humor. [156] Before joining the Supreme Court, she was known to play poker and smoke cigars. [156] [157] Early in her tenure as a justice, Kagan began socializing with several of her new colleagues. [158]
Nov 5, 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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Elena Kagan is a Supreme Court justice and the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States of America. Updated: Mar 26, 2021 3:55 PM EDT Getty Images
Justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom Kagan clerked 35 years ago, is one of her heroes. In a moving remembrance Kagan published after he died, which Obama quoted when nominating her, she recounted the justice’s philosophy: “It was the role of the courts, in interpreting the Constitution, to protect the people who went unprotected by every other organ of government—to safeguard the ...
Apr 6, 2022 · Kagan is the 112th justice to serve on the Supreme Court. Prior to her nomination, Kagan was the solicitor general, the top Justice Department lawyer representing the federal government at the ...
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, […]
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Oct 1, 2010 · Elena Kagan, the newest Supreme Court Justice, was an unsurprising choice for the US Supreme Court, but her judicial philosophy is hard to define.
