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Elena Kagan
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Active service.
Confirmed 63 to 37Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- May 10, 2010
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- June 28, 2010
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), July 20, 2010
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 63 to 37
- Confirmed
- August 5, 2010
- Commissioned
- August 6, 2010
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1960, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1986-1987
- Law clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States, 1987-1988
- Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1989-1991
- Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1997; assistant professor, 1991-1994; professor, 1994-1997
- Special counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1993
- Associate counsel, President William J. Clinton, 1995-1996
- Deputy assistant for domestic policy and deputy director of the domestic policy council, Executive Office of the President, 1997-1999
- Faculty, Harvard Law School, 1999-2010; visiting professor, 1999-2001; professor, 2001-2010; dean, 2003-2009
- Solicitor general of the United States, 2009-2010
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