Elena Kagan

Judicial Service

Education

• Princeton University, A.B., 1981
• University of Oxford, Worcester College, M.Phil., 1983
• Harvard Law School, J.D., 1986

Professional Career

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

External Links

• Federal Judicial Center Biography