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Elena Kagan

Guide to the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Academic and Professional Career

Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2003-present
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School, 2003-2009
Associate, Williams & Connolly, 1989-1991
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2001
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 1999-2001,
Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-97

Government Service

Associate Counsel to the President, 1995-96
Solicitor General of the United States, 2009-present
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, 1997-99
Special Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1993

Federal Clerkships

Judge Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1986-1987
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1987-1988

Education

A.B. summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1981
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1986
Master of Philosophy, Worcester College, Oxford University, 1983

Official Biographies

News Profiles

Statements from Colleagues

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