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Elena Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ə n / 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.
May 9, 2024 · Elena Kagan 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 3, 2003 · An alumna of Harvard Law School and a former law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, Kagan will succeed Robert C. Clark, the Royall Professor of Law, who in November announced plans to conclude his service as dean on June 30, 2003, following fourteen years of distinguished service.
1 day ago · Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the majority, noted that neither lower appeals courts had properly analyzed the First Amendment challenges to the Florida and Texas laws.
1 day ago · She was joined in her dissent by the court's two other liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.
1 day ago · Justice Elena Kagan delivered the court's opinion, which tossed out lower court rulings and sent the two cases back for the proceedings. The court said neither lower court conducted the proper ...
Jul 1, 2023 · Kagan wrote something unusual. She didn’t just challenge the chief justice’s reasoning, she questioned whether the court’s decision was even constitutional.
Sep 3, 2021 · 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.
Dec 1, 2021 · 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.
1 day ago · The court's six conservatives were in the majority in the ruling, with liberals Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent.
