Elena Kagan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elena Kagan
Occupation	Supreme Court Justice
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1960(1960-04-28)
Age	64
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York State
Horoscope	Taurus

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. Fourth female Supreme Court Justice. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace John Paul Stevens.

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.

Elena Kagan Net Worth

Elena Kagan 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: December 11, 2023)

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

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.

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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”.

Facts & Trivia

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.