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Elena Kagan Biography

Elena Kagan is one of the most popular and richest Supreme Court Justice who was born on April 28, 1960 in New York City, New York State, United States. She continued the legacy of the first female justice of the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, who was nominated in 1981.

Elena Kagan (/ˈ k eɪ ɡ ən / ; born April 28, 1960) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in May 2010, and confirmed by the Senate in August of the same year. She is the fourth woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Kagan and her family lived in a third-floor apartment at West End Avenue and 75th Street and attended Lincoln Square Synagogue. She was independent and strong-willed in her youth and, according to a former law partner of her father’s, clashed with her Orthodox rabbi, Shlomo Riskin, over aspects of her bat mitzvah. “She had strong opinions about what a bat mitzvah should be like, which didn’t parallel the wishes of the rabbi,” her father’s colleague said. Kagan and Riskin negotiated a solution. Riskin had never performed a ritual bat mitzvah before. She “felt very strongly that there should be ritual bat mitzvah in the synagogue, no less important than the ritual bar mitzvah. This was really the first formal bat mitzvah we had,” he said. Kagan asked to read from the Torah on a Saturday morning as the boys did, but ultimately read from the Book of Ruth on a Friday night. She now practices Conservative Judaism.

She grew up as her family’s middle child. Her father was a lawyer, while her mother was a teacher.

She was appointed Solicitor General by President Obama one year before he nominated her for the Supreme Court.

Kagan was born on April 28, 1960, in Manhattan, the second of three children of Robert Kagan, an attorney who represented tenants trying to remain in their homes, and Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, who taught at Hunter College Elementary School. Both her parents were the children of Russian immigrants. Kagan has two brothers, Marc and Irving.

Elena Kagan Net Worth

Elena is one of the richest Supreme Court Justice from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elena Kagan's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

She went abroad to study at Oxford, earning a Master of Philosophy in the early 1980s.

Kagan attended Hunter College High School, where her mother taught. The school had a reputation as one of the most elite learning institutions for high school girls and attracted students from all over New York City. Kagan emerged as one of the school’s more outstanding students. She was elected president of the student government and served on a student-faculty consultative committee. After graduating, Kagan attended Princeton University, where she earned a Bachelors of Arts summa cum laude in history in 1981. She was particularly drawn to American history and archival research. She wrote a senior thesis under historian Sean Wilentz titled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900–1933”. In it she wrote, “Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.” Wilentz says Kagan did not mean to defend socialism, noting that she “was interested in it. To study something is not to endorse it.”

In 1983, at age 23, Kagan entered Harvard Law School. Her adjustment to Harvard’s atmosphere was rocky; she received the worst grades of her entire law school career in her first semester. Kagan went on to earn an A in 17 of the 21 courses she took at Harvard. She was also immersed in the law as a summer associate in the law offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, a Wall Street firm in New York, where she worked in the litigation department. In 1986 she received a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was supervisory editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her friend Jeffrey Toobin recalls that Kagan “stood out from the start as one with a formidable mind. She’s good with people. At the time, the law school was a politically charged and divided place. She navigated the factions with ease, and won the respect of everyone.”

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In 1980, Kagan received Princeton’s Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest general awards the university confers. This enabled her to study at Worcester College, Oxford. As part of her graduation requirement, Kagan wrote a thesis called “The Development and Erosion of the American Exclusionary Rule: A Study in Judicial Method”. It presented a critical look at the exclusionary rule and its evolution on the Supreme Court—in particular the Warren Court. She earned a Master of Philosophy in Politics at Oxford in 1983.

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In 1987 Kagan was a law clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She became one of Mikva’s favorite clerks; he called her “the pick of the litter”. In 1988 Kagan clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall said he hired Kagan to help him put the “spark” back into his opinions as the court had been undergoing a conservative shift since William Rehnquist became Chief Justice in 1986. Marshall nicknamed the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) Kagan “Shorty”.

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Kagan’s childhood friend Margaret Raymond recalled that she was a teenage smoker but not a partier. On Saturday nights, Raymond and Kagan were “more apt to sit on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and talk.” Kagan also loved literature and reread Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice every year. In her 1977 Hunter College High School yearbook, she is pictured in a judge’s robe and holding a gavel. Next to the photo is a quotation from former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter: “Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of arts.”

In 1991 Kagan became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. While there she first met Barack Obama, a guest lecturer at the school. While on the UC faculty, Kagan published a law review article on the regulation of First Amendment hate speech in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul; an article discussing the significance of governmental motive in regulating speech; and a review of a book by Stephen L. Carter discussing the judicial confirmation process. In the first article, which became highly influential, Kagan argued that the Supreme Court should examine governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases and analyzed historic draft-card burning and flag burning cases in light of free speech arguments.

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Elena Ranked on the list of most popular Supreme Court Justice. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elena Kagan celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

In 1993, Senator Joe Biden appointed Kagan as a special counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. During this time, she worked on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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