Elena Kagan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elena Kagan

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1960

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Elena Kagan (; 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 was born and raised in New York City.
After graduating from Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for a federal Court of Appeals judge and for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
She began her career as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leaving to serve as Associate White House Counsel, and later as policy adviser under President Bill Clinton.
After a nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, which expired without action, she became a professor at Harvard Law School and was later named its first female dean. In 2009, Kagan became the first female Solicitor General of the United States.
President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy arising from the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.
The United States Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 63 to 37.
She is considered part of the Court's liberal wing, but tends to be one of the more moderate justices of that group.
She wrote the majority opinion in Cooper v.
Harris, a landmark case restricting the permissible uses of race in drawing congressional districts.